• A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
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(from the article `Mentha`) ...the characteristic mint fragrance. Peppermint (M. piperita) has a heavier scent, stalked leaves, and reddish lilac flowers in denser spikes. ... ...it is extensively cultivated in the Middle East; it was one of the bitter herbs with which the paschal lamb was eaten. This plant has hairy leaves ... [2 re...
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(Mentha) This is a large group of well-known perennial herbs, which are widely spread over the temperate parts of the world. Mentha includes the Apple Mint, Curly Mint, Pennyroyal, Peppermint, Pineapple Mint, Spearmint and Water or Bog Mint. Following are descriptions of each variety.…
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Wa'ter mint` A kind of mint (
Mentha aquatica ) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
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Water mint (Mentha aquaticavar) is a perennial herb of the family Labiatae with a branched rhizome and erect, square stems, branched in the upper part. The leaves are sessile, opposite, ovate, sharply toothed, wrinkled and hairy. The flowers are bluish in colour, tubular and arranged in slender, terminal, axillary soikes. The calyx and corolla have...
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water mint noun a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America
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