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horsemint

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horse⋅mint

  [hawrs-mint]
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–noun
1. a wild mint, Mentha longifolia, introduced into America from Europe, having spikes of lilac flowers.
2. any of various other wild mints as the New World Monarda punctata.
Origin:
1225–75; ME; see horse, mint 1
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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.

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