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Horsemint

noun
1.
An annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico.  Synonyms: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora.
2.
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.  Synonym: Monarda punctata.
3.
A coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States.  Synonym: Mentha longifolia.





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... say, "I could wish from my soul that blasphemy and ignorance were ceased among physicians"—as if the poor doctors gave these folk-names! The crab-claws so often mentioned was also an herb, otherwise known as knight's-pond water and freshwater-soldier. The mints to flavor were horsemint, ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle


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