'Mentha aquatica' definitions:
Definition of 'Mentha aquatica'
(from WordNet)
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, Mentha aquatica]
Definition of 'Mentha aquatica'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol.
- Mint julep. See Julep.
- Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mentha aquatica'
From: GCIDE
- Water mint \Wa"ter mint`\ A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Mentha aquatica'
From: GCIDE
- 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). [1913 Webster]
- 2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A variety of pear. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. [1913 Webster]
- The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa). [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]