Crossword-Solution: HOREHOUND 9 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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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.

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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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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.
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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.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008
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.
The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin 2008
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.
Hard Cash Charles Reade 2013
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.
Bramble-bees and Others J. Henri Fabre 2002
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.
The Purple Land W. H. Hudson 2004

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.
Martha Stewart
Where this answer appears

Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1966–2019).