Definition of Marrubium vulgare

1. Noun. European aromatic herb with hairy leaves and numerous white flowers in axillary cymes; leaves yield a bitter extract use medicinally and as flavoring.

Exact synonyms: Common Horehound, White Horehound
Generic synonyms: Horehound

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marrubium Vulgare

Marquette
Marquis' reagent
Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Laplace
Marquis de Sade
Marquise de Maintenon
Marquise de Montespan
Marquise de Pompdour
Marrakech
Marrakesh
Marranic
Marranism
Marranist
Marrano
Marranos
Marrubium vulgare
Marruecos
Mars
Mars Express
Mars Rover
Mars bar parties
Mars brown
Marsala
Marsalas
Marsaxlokk
Marseillaise
Marseille
Marseilles
Marseilles fever

Literary usage of Marrubium vulgare

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication by John William Fyfe, John Milton Scudder (1909)
"It exercises a tonic influence upon the stomach, and is deemed a remedy of curative power in atonic dyspepsia. marrubium vulgare is tonic, ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(1) marrubium vulgare, L.—Lyte, Prior, p. 117. (2) Ballota nigra, Ij.—E. ... marrubium vulgare, L. Horn, Buck's. See Buck's-horn. Horn, Devil's. ..."

3. Medicines, their uses and mode of administration by John Moore Neligan (1864)
"marrubium vulgare. White Horehound. This plant is now omitted from the British Pharmacopoeia, though still retained in many of the Continental; ..."

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