单词 | horehound |
释义 | horehound (once / 67156 pages) n WORD FAMILY horehound: horehounds USAGE EXAMPLESThe lake was layered with sweet flag, sedge, lilies, horehound, bulrush and buckbean. New York Times(Oct 21, 2016) Christmas on the farm usually meant a few pairs of bib coveralls along with some horehound candy and fruit under the tree. Washington Times(Aug 20, 2016) Time after time, it dipped in and out of the candy counter: peppermint sticks, jawbreakers, horehound, and gumdrops. Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows(1961) 1n any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Marrubium Hypo|Hyper Marrubium vulgare, common horehound, white horehound European aromatic herb with hairy leaves and numerous white flowers in axillary cymes; leaves yield a bitter extract use medicinally and as flavoring herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n a candy that is flavored with an extract of the horehound plant Hyper candy, confect a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts |
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