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Definition of Horsemint
1. Noun. An annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico.
2. Noun. 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.
3. Noun. A coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States.
Definition of Horsemint
1. n. A coarse American plant of the Mint family (Monarda punctata).
Definition of Horsemint
1. Noun. (American English) A coarse American plant of the mint family (''Monarda punctata''). ¹
2. Noun. (U.K.) The wild mint (''Mentha sylvestris''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horsemint
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Medical Definition of Horsemint
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsemint
Literary usage of Horsemint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles ... and a materia medica by John W. Comfort (1859)
"The oil of horsemint, applied to the skin, produces a very sudden rubefacient
effect,— causing redness of the skin, and even blistering. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"According to H. Schrotter, horsemint oil contains 50 per cent, of a levo-rotatory
terpene, ... Further the thymol from fresh horsemint oil is said to be ..."
3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"OIL OF horsemint. A volatile oil distilled from the fresh herb of ... Oil of
horsemint serves well in the vomiting of inebriate*, and in nausea accompanying ..."
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