Marrubium

noun

Mar·​ru·​bi·​um

-ēəm

: a genus of Old World mints having wrinkled leaves and small white or purple flowers in dense axillary clusters see horehound sense 1a

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin, horehound

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