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Wild bergamot

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wild bergamot

–noun
a plant, Monarda fistulosa, of the mint family, native to eastern North America, having a rounded cluster of lilac-colored or purple flowers, growing in dry places.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism
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horse·mint   (hôrs'mĭnt')   
n.  
  1. A perennial, aromatic eastern North American plant (Monarda punctata) having opposite leaves and yellowish flowers with purple spots. Also called wild bergamot.

  2. A Eurasian wild mint (Mentha longifolia), naturalized in the eastern United States and having long, opposite leaves and dense, spikelike elongated clusters of flowers.

wild bergamot  
n.  See horsemint.
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