What is "mentha aquatica"

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.

Water mint \Wa"ter mint`\ A kind of mint ( Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.

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.)

   1. 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.

   2. A variety of mint ( Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.

3. A variety of pear.
   --Johnson.

4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.

   The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot.
   --Cowper.

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.

   Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family ( Monarda fistulosa).

Mentha aquatica (water mint; syn. Mentha hirsuta Huds.) is a perennial plant in the genus Mentha, that grows in damp places and is native to much of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia.