common horehound
- noun
- /ˈkɒmən ˈhɔːrhaʊnd/
- Specialized
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horehound común
- She brewed a tea from common horehound to soothe her sore throat.
Examples
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Old remedies often featured extracts of common horehound as a cough suppressant.
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Have you ever tasted common horehound candy?
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The garden bed was filled with aromatic herbs, including common horehound and mint.
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The common horehound is often used in herbal remedies.
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She brewed a tea from common horehound to soothe her sore throat.
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Old remedies often featured extracts of common horehound as a cough suppressant.
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The common horehound is often used in herbal remedies.
Synonyms
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A small herb with a strong smell and wrinkled leaves used for medicine or flavor
A European herb with hairy leaves and white flowers used to make a bitter medicine or flavour
A European herb with hairy leaves and small white flowers that people use to make bitter medicine and flavoring
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'common' names a usual/typical variety and 'horehound' names the specific herb, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the common species of that plant. This follows ordinary adjective+noun naming patterns found cross-linguistically, making the phrase immediately interpretable.
Etymology
Common horehound may come from old words that describe the herb's grey, hairy leaves: hore comes from a word meaning 'hoary', which means grey and fuzzy, and hound was an old word used in plant names. Because people used this bitter, hairy herb to soothe coughs and for flavor, the name came to mean the medicinal plant we call common horehound today.