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Definition of Lemon mint
1. Noun. An annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico.
2. Noun. Mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemon Mint
Literary usage of Lemon mint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"Instead, the latter is called "lemon mint" and "lemon monarda" which simply states
the same idea in different words. Monarda fistulosa is a conspicuous ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"... well pounded sulphur, twenty-six drachms; glycerine, fifty-two drachms; essence
of lavender, lemon, mint, cloves, and cinnamon, of each fifteen drops. ..."
3. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1917)
"lemon mint. Crush a few mint leaves in the juice of one-half lemon; add a heaping
teaspoonful of powdered sugar, stir until dissolved, and add contents of a ..."
4. The History of the County of Derby by Stephen Glover (1829)
"... lemon mint Pulegium, pennyroyal, wet commons, September, purple, Langley
common, Ock- brook and Radbourn ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Tasteby Luther Tucker by Luther Tucker (1851)
"... repens) is the most troublesome of weeds, for every fragment of its far-spreading
roots will vegetate; and the sweet-scented coltsfoot and lemon mint ..."
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