| NOUN | plant | genus Ballota, Ballota | perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area |
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| Meaning | perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound. | |
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| Synonym | Ballota | |
| Member of | Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family | A large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint |
| Members | black horehound, black archangel, fetid horehound, stinking horehound, Ballota nigra | ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers |
| Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
| Spanish | ballota, genus ballota | |
| Catalan | ballota, Ballota, genus ballota | |
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