Found 2 items, similar to Mentha aquatica.
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Definition: Mentha aquatica
Mentha aquatica
n : 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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mentha aquatica
Mint
\Mint\ (m[i^]nt), n. [AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. mi`nqa,
mi`nqh.] (Bot.)
The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the
genus
Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by
distillation. See
Mentha.
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Note:
Corn mint is
Mentha arvensis.
Horsemint is
Mentha sylvestris, and in the United States
Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in
several respects.
Mountain mint is any species of the related genus
Pycnanthemum, common in North America.
Peppermint is
Mentha piperita.
Spearmint is
Mentha viridis.
Water mint is
Mentha aquatica.
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Mint camphor. (Chem.) See
Menthol.
Mint julep. See
Julep.
Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.
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Water mint
\Wa"ter mint`\
A kind of mint (
Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and
sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
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Bergamot
\Ber"ga*mot\ (b[~e]r"g[.a]*m[o^]t), n. [F. bergamote,
fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg arm[=u]di
a lord's pear.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A tree of the Orange family (
Citrus bergamia),
having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind
of which an essential oil of delicious odor is
extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.
(b) A variety of mint (
Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
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2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
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3. A variety of pear. --Johnson.
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4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
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The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot.
--Cowper.
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5. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or
hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been
invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.
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Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family
(
Monarda fistulosa).
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