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peppermint
Alternative clues for the word peppermint
Word definitions for peppermint in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peppermint \Pep"per*mint\, n. [Pepper + mint.] (Bot.) An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha ( Mentha piperita ), much used in medicine and confectionery. A volatile oil (oil of peppermint) distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from pepper (n.) + mint (n.1). As a type of candy drop by 1829.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A hybrid herb of the mint family formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections. 2 A confection containing extract of peppermint.
Usage examples of peppermint.
It possesses an acrid, biting taste, somewhat like that of the Peppermint, which resides in the glandular dots sprinkled about its surface, and which is lost in drying.
She was interested in her body and her face, but she was obsessed with her hair, which at the time they rescued Billy Anker from Redline was a long pinkish-blonde floss that smelled permanently of peppermint shampoo.
Contains processed oleander leaves, saltpeter, oil of peppermint, N-Acetyl-p-aminophenol, zinc oxide, charcoal, cobalt chloride, caffeine, extract of digitalis, steroids in trace amounts, sodium citrate, ascorbic acid, artificial coloring and flavoring.
In France continuous inhalations of Peppermint oil combined with creasote and glycerine, have become used most successfully, even when cavities exist in the lungs, with copious bacillary expectoration.
Jamie up in bed with a hot stone to his feet, a mustard plaster on his chest, and a hot tisane of aromatic peppermint and ephedra leaves to drink.
The carminative properties of spearmint are inferior to those of peppermint, and its chief employment is for its diuretic and febrifuge virtues.
This one is peppermint, yes, but it also has a juniper flavour, rather like gin.
When Hannah first arrived in London from Uganda she shared digs with a German nurse and consequently assumed that all English people ate Knackwurst and sauerkraut and drank peppermint tea.
And we got hardbake and raspberry noyau and peppermint rock and oranges and a coconut, with other nice things.
He smelled like peppermint, too, but then I saw the red and white swirled candy rolling around his mouth.
To revive her spirits and to quicken her memory, Israel had taken her to walk in the fields outside the town where she had loved to play in her childhood--the wild places covered with the peppermint and the pink, the thyme, the marjoram, and the white broom, where she had gathered flowers in the old times, when God had taught her.
Plus some peppermint oil and sulphur and pulsatilla homeopathic stuff for the runs.
Lori had also gone scavenging and come across a box that had once held some chocolate-covered peppermint candy.
Once I had the ingredients translated, I saw that I could get them at the herb store on Braker without any trouble: it was mostly stuff I already had anyway, like vervain and oils of rosemary and peppermint.
Instead of fantasizing about slave-kitchers Papa had told them so many stories about, or fishing for catfish, or the peppermint sticks at the general store in town she was allowed to eat at Christmastime, Sarah thought only of her task.