spearmint

I gather up my laptop and toss the mess of gum wrappers and chewed spearmint globs into the trash can.
After War: Anger, Panic, and Sometimes Peace|Benjamin Tupper|June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Our bar is nothing fancy like Spearmint Rhino,” he admits, “but we try to be a friendly place.
The Worst Strip Club in Vegas|Richard Abowitz|September 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST
And I advise you to remove that Spearmint from your mouth, if you want to sell any dictionaries in this house.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays|Various
Those usually cultivated in gardens are three, Peppermint, Spearmint, and Pennyroyal mint.
Soil Culture|J. H. Walden

Oil of wintergreen, cloves, or cinnamon may be used in place of spearmint, and other coloring may be used.
Better Meals for Less Money|Mary Green
Cool and strain, add juice of three lemons and four oranges; one bunch of fresh mint leaves and two drops of oil of spearmint.
Stevenson Memorial Cook Book|Various
Spearmint adds to lemonade the pleasing pungency it as readily imparts to a less harmful but more notorious beverage.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses|M. G. Kains

British Dictionary definitions for spearmint

spearmint

/ (ˈspɪəmɪnt) /

noun

a purple-flowered mint plant, Mentha spicata, of S and central Europe, cultivated for its leaves, which yield an oil used for flavouring

Word Origin for spearmint

C16: so called because of its long narrow leaves

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