wild mint
English
Wild mint Mentha arvensis)
Wild mint (Mentha longifolia)
Etymology
From Middle English wyldemynt, wilde mente, equivalent to wild + mint.
Noun
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, mint.
- (botany) Any plant of certain species of genus Mentha
- Mentha arvensis
- Synonyms: field mint, corn mint
- Mentha longifolia
- Synonym: horse mint
- Mentha pulegium
- Synonym: European pennyroyal
- Mentha arvensis
- Any aromatic North American mint of the species Hedeoma pulegioides
- Synonyms: American false pennyroyal, American pennyroyal
References
wild mint on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Mentha on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Mentha on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - “wild mint”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- wild mint at USDA Plants database
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