mint (mentha l.)

  • 81Mint —    (Gr. heduosmon, i.e., having a sweet smell ), one of the garden herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species most common in Syria is the Mentha sylvestris, the wild …

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  • 82Mentha citrata — noun mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange • Syn: ↑bergamot mint, ↑lemon mint, ↑eau de cologne mint • Hypernyms: ↑mint …

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  • 83mint — [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced… …

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  • 84mint — [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced… …

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  • 85Mentha aquatica — noun a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America • Syn: ↑water mint, ↑water mint • Hypernyms: ↑mint …

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  • 86Mentha arvensis — noun European mint naturalized in United States • Syn: ↑corn mint, ↑field mint • Hypernyms: ↑mint …

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  • 87mint — mint1 noun 1》 an aromatic plant with two lipped, typically lilac flowers, several kinds of which are used as culinary herbs. [Genus Mentha: several species.]     ↘the flavour of mint, especially peppermint. 2》 a peppermint sweet. Derivatives… …

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  • 88Mentha arvensis — ID 53102 Symbol Key MEAR4 Common Name wild mint Family Lamiaceae Category Dicot Division Magnoliophyta US Nativity Native to U.S. US/NA Plant Yes State Distribution AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN,… …

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  • 89Mentha — ID 53097 Symbol Key MENTH Common Name mint Family Lamiaceae Category Dicot Division Magnoliophyta US Nativity N/A US/NA Plant Yes State Distribution AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN,… …

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  • 90Mentha aquatica — ID 53098 Symbol Key MEAQ Common Name water mint Family Lamiaceae Category Dicot Division Magnoliophyta US Nativity Introduced to U.S. US/NA Plant Yes State Distribution AR, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA,… …

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