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WATER-MINT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water-mint mean?
• WATER-MINT (noun)
The noun WATER-MINT has 1 sense:
1. a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America
Familiarity information: WATER-MINT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Mentha aquatica; water-mint; water mint
Hypernyms ("water-mint" is a kind of...):
mint (any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers)
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