bastard pennyroyal

English

Noun

bastard pennyroyal (uncountable)

1. Plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to North America and having a pennyroyal-like scent, including:
   1. Blue curls, Trichostema dichotomum, native to the eastern US.
   2. Trichostema setaceum (Trichostema lineare in older references), also native to the eastern US, which is usually qualified as linear-leaved or narrow bastard pennyroyal.
   3. Monardella lanceolata, native to California and Baja California.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bastard pennyroyal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)