Definition of Stinking horehound

1. Noun. Ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinking Horehound

stinkhorns
stinkier
stinkiest
stinkily
stinkin'
stinkiness
stinking
stinking bean trefoil
stinking cedar
stinking chamomile
stinking clover
stinking elder
stinking gladwyn
stinking goosefoot
stinking hellebore
stinking horehound (current term)
stinking iris
stinking mayweed
stinking nightshade
stinking on ice
stinking smut
stinking wattle
stinking weed
stinking yew
stinkingly
stinkings
stinkless
stinko
stinkpot
stinkpots

Literary usage of Stinking horehound

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

1. Familiar Wild Flowers by Frederick Edward Hulme (1902)
"... the interests of truth, to admit that another name, at least as common and a good deal more expressive, by which it is known, is the stinking horehound. ..."

2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... the black or stinking horehound, a hairy plant, with an upright brownish stem, about two feet in height. It is a perennial plant, common in most parts ..."

3. The Family Herbal,: Or An Account of All Those English Plants, which are by John Hill (1812)
"A COMMON wild plant of a disagreeable smell, (hence also called by some stinking horehound. The stalks are square, the leaves grow two at every joint, ..."

4. Journal of Emily Shore by Emily Shore (1898)
"... the wild thyme, the pedicularis, the stinking horehound, and my beautiful buckbean. My specimen, after having been preserved ten days, is fading. ..."

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