Stinking Horehound (Noun)
Meaning
Ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The smell of the stinking horehound filled the entire room and lingered for hours.
- While weeding her garden, Emma encountered a stubborn patch of stinking horehound that was competing with her favorite flowers for space and sunlight.
- Wildlife tends to avoid stinking horehound because of its potent odor and taste, making it an unpopular plant in gardens designed to attract local wildlife.
- Freshly brewed stinking horehound tea has been a part of homeopathic medicine for generations in treating coughs and various stomach ailments.
- Emily thought that adding some fresh leaves from the stinking horehound to the recipe might not have been such a brilliant idea given its powerful, rather unpalatable flavor.