water mint


noun
  1. a Eurasian mint plant, Mentha aquatica, of marshy places, having scented leaves and whorls of small flowers

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How to use water mint in a sentence

  • Was it the damp that brought the perfumes of the moorland so distinctly toward them—the bog-myrtle, the water-mint and wild thyme?

  • The leaves of the Hairy water mint are broadly oval with widely separated teeth round the edge.

  • Was that the dried sweetness of balsam,—the pungent odor of pennyroyal and water-mint,—the clean, resinous fragrance of the pines?

    Hope Mills | Amanda M. Douglas
  • The water-mint and scorpion-grasses remain far into November, and the former scents more sweetly as the season wanes.

    A Cotswold Village | J. Arthur Gibbs