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horsemint
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horsemint \Horse"mint`\, n. (Bot.)
A coarse American plant of the Mint family ( Monarda punctata).
In England, the wild mint ( Mentha sylvestris).
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.
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.
Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol.
Mint julep. See Julep.
Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A coarse American plant of the mint family ((taxlink Monarda punctata species noshow=1)). 2 (context UK English) The (vern wild mint pedia=1) ((taxlink Mentha sylvestris species noshow=1), now (taxlink Mentha longifolia species noshow=1)).
WordNet
n. an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico [syn: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora]
tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico [syn: Monarda punctata]
a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States [syn: Mentha longifolia]
Wikipedia
Horsemint may refer to:
- Mentha longifolia, a wild mint, which is also known in England as Horsemint.
- Any plant in the genus Monarda, native to North America.
- Agastache urticifolia, Mint family plant of the Great Basin in western United States
Usage examples of "horsemint".
She ran back, found the dried horsemint, and added hot water to the leaves.
It was a nice ride, though, for the birds were in full warbling splendor, and flowering horsemint poked up from piles of slate.
It has been shown that Horsemint can be grown on the lighter types of soil at comparatively little expense, and as the cost oftransportation for the finished product, Thymol, is very low, it would seem that the production of this crop might be profitable when grown in connexion with other oil-yielding plants for which a distilling apparatus is required.
The English Horsemint (Mentha sylvestris) is a strong-scented plant, frequent in damp, waste ground, usually growing in masses, with downy, egg-shaped leaves tapering to a point, with finely toothed margins, their undersides very white with silky hairs.
In 1907, Horsemint was observed to occur in abundance as a common weed on the sandy lands of central Florida, and the preliminary examinations of the oil from the wild plants which were made at that time seemed to indicate that a promising commercial source of Thymol could be developed by bringing this plant under cultivation and selecting for propagation types of plants best suited for oil production.