Crossword clues for spearmint
spearmint
- "Ah like to ___ with diffr'nt huntin' spots"
- Ingredient in a mojito highball
- Common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring
- Arms factory?
- Chewing gum flavour
- Exhausted, without strength, I will have sweet
- Weapon in new condition in plant
- Small fruit with perfect flavour
- Singular fruit with perfect flavour
- Flavouring made from small fruit in perfect condition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spearmint \Spear"mint`\, n. [So named from its spiry, not
capitate, inflorescence.
--Dr. Prior.] (Bot.)
A species of mint ( Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil.
It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. ''Mentha spicata'', A herb of the mint family, commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
WordNet
n. common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring [syn: Mentha spicata]
Wikipedia
Spearmint, or spear mint (Mentha spicata) (also known as Mentha viridis) is a species of mint native to much of Europe and Asia ( Middle East, Himalayas, China etc.), and naturalized in parts of northern and western Africa, North America, and South America, as well as various oceanic islands.
Subspecies- Mentha spicata subsp. condensata (Briq.) Greuter & Burdet - Mediterranean region; naturalized in New Zealand
- Mentha spicata subsp. spicata - most of species range
Spearmint are a London-based indie pop band, founded in 1995. Their founding members were Shirley Lee (lead vocals, guitar), Simon Calnan (vocals, keyboards), Martin Talbot (bass), and Ronan Larvor (drums). Talbot left soon afterward, to be replaced by James Parsons. Parsons later became a second guitarist, with Andy Lewis joining on bass guitar. The group has received coverage in the NME, Time Out, Melody Maker and Uncut magazines.
Spearmint is a flavour used mainly in chewing gums and tooth paste that is either naturally or artificially created to taste like oil of spearmint (herb). It is also popular as a flavouring for milkshakes in Canada and the U.S.; during each March, McDonald's puts them out as a Shamrock Shake.
Wrigley Company and Cadbury Adams are among the companies in the United States that manufacture and sell spearmint-flavoured chewing gum as Wrigley's Spearmint. Excel gum comes in this flavour in Canada; the same gum is sold as Eclipse in the US and Australia. Jolt gum is also available in a spearmint flavour. Freshen Up Gum is chewing gum produced in Brazil which also has a spearmint-flavoured gum.
Wrigley also makes a sugar-free chewing gum called Eclipse Sugarfree Spearmint and Extra Sugarfree Spearmint. For those who don't like gum sticking to the teeth, there is Freedent Spearmint Chewing Gum.
The flavour is not restricted to chewing gums strictly. It is sometimes possible to buy spearmint-flavoured Mentos; there is also a spearmint-flavoured Soft Mint from Trebor, and a spearmint Polos, these are on sale in the United Kingdom "chewy dragées" in some countries. They were (or still are) available in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. As of 2005, they are no longer sold in the latter.
The name "spearmint" is trademarked in the UK. This issue became known when skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan recorded a cover version of the 1924 American song "Does the Spearmint Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?" Because "spearmint" was trademarked in the UK, BBC Radio would not play the song as it was; as a result, Donegan renamed the song " Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)", turning it into a top-10 hit in both countries.
Spearmint may be:
- Spearmint, a herb
- Spearmint (flavour), a flavor based on the herb
- Wrigley's Spearmint, a chewing gum with the flavor
- Spearmint (band), a British indie band
- Spearmint (horse), a racehorse
Spearmint (1903–1924) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and a sire. In a brief racing career which lasted from 1905 until June 1906, he ran five times and won three races. After showing moderate form in 1905, he won the Epsom Derby on his seasonal debut at age three and then became the first British horse for twenty years to win France's most important race, the Grand Prix de Paris. He became a successful breeding stallion, siring major winners in Europe and the United States. His daughters produced the winners of eight classic races. Spearmint was placed on the winning sires and brood-mare sires lists on several occasions.
Usage examples of "spearmint".
The carminative properties of spearmint are inferior to those of peppermint, and its chief employment is for its diuretic and febrifuge virtues.
Several kinds of the Mints have been used medicinally from the earliest times, such as Balm, Basil, Ground Ivy, Horehound, Marjoram, Pennyroyal, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sage, Savory, Spearmint, and Thyme, some being esteemed rather as pot herbs, than as exercising positive medicinal effects.
The most useful as Herbal Simples which have yet to be considered are Pennyroyal, Peppermint, and Spearmint.
She clacked her palps indifferently, blew a large bubble of green spearmint, and popped it with lively report.
Joe Winder followed him to the same dumpsite where the corpse of Spearmint Breath had been hidden.
The LESSER CALAMINT (Calamintha nepeta) is a variety of the herb possessing almost superior virtues, with a stronger odour, resembling that of Pennyroyal, and a moderately pungent taste somewhat like Spearmint, but warmer.
Although historically there was a problem when one of the Melanesian cargo cults voted in a case of Wrigley's spearmint gum.
The level had dropped dramatically, only at the water's edge were wild flowers: forget-me-nots, frogbit and soft mauve spearmint, still growing.
Most crop-eaters left Earth plants alone, especially if the fields were bordered with spearmints and marigolds to give off odors that even Earth insects detested.
Along the ground were planted spearmint, chamomile, lemon verbena, and other spices.
On tables and benches and sturdy metal racks stand hundreds of terra-cotta pots and plastic trays in which she cultivates tarragon and thyme, angelica and arrowroot, chervil and cardamom and coriander and chicory, spearmint and sweet cicely, ginseng, hyssop, balm and basil, marjoram and mint and mullein, dill, fennel, rosemary, chamomile, tansy.
The bogeymen of our young dreams were the mythical undead cheese-complexioned Plant workers, their wispy hair popping out of their skulls in tufts and clumps while they chewed sticks of spearmint gum, taking turns to look out the Plants' one porthole window and telling Daisy and me tales of braziered cities, too-hot suns, and all the fish in the world floating belly up in the seas.
If Spearmint is being grown as a medicinal herb, for the sake of the volatile oil to be extracted from it, the shoots should be gathered in August, when just coming into flower, and taken to the distillery as soon as possible after picking, the British Pharmacopceia directing that oil of Spearmint be distilled from the fresh, flowering plant.