Crossword-Solution: HOREHOUND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Horehound | n. | A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “HOREHOUND”
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| A plant of the mint family, traditionally used as medicinal herb | 1 answer |
| Coughdrop ingredient. | 1 answer |
| HOARHOUND | 1 answer |
| Herbaceous plant used to make throat lozenges | 1 answer |
| plant that produces a bitter juice formerly used as a cough medicine | 1 answer |
| NORTH African herbaceous plant | 4 answers |
| Aromatic mint | 6 answers |
| NORTH African plant | 12 answers |
| AFRICAN herbaceous plant | 13 answers |
| ASIAN herbaceous plant | 18 answers |
| African plant | 31 answers |
| EUROPEAN herb/herbaceous plant | 38 answers |
| European plant | 51 answers |
| ASIAN plant | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEECMA
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eruption
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Sentences with HOREHOUND (5)
The horehound comes through the fence and under it, shouldering the pickets off the railings; the brier rose mines under the horehound; and no care, though I own I am not a close weeder, keeps the small pale moons of the primrose from rising to the night moth under my apple-trees.
Every house in the town of the vines has its garden plot, corn and brown beans and a row of peppers reddening in the sun; and in damp borders of the irrigating ditches clumps of yerbasanta, horehound, catnip, and spikenard, wholesome herbs and curative, but if no peppers then nothing at all.
Here, let me have a go at it.” “Ah! I've heard you are a scholard,” said Dick, “but you won't make out this; there's some new preparation of mercury, and there's musk, and there's horehound, and there's a neutral salt: and dal his old head that wrote it!” “Hold your jaw, and listen, while I construe it to you.
Next come the Labiatae: Marrubium vulgare, or common white horehound; Ballota fetida, or stinking horehound; Calamintha nepeta, or lesser calamint; Salvia aethiopis, or woolly sage.
Dismounting, I led my horse along a narrow path through a perfect wilderness of wild sunflowers, horehound, red-weed, and thorn-apple, up to some poplar trees where there had once been a gate, of which only two or three broken posts remained standing in the ground.
Quotes with HOREHOUND (1)
I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1966–2019).