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Definition of Mentha spicata
1. Noun. Common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mentha Spicata
Literary usage of Mentha spicata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Type species : mentha spicata L. * Whorls of flowers in terminal spikes, ...
mentha spicata L. Sp. Pl. 576. 1753. mentha spicata var. viridis L. loc. cit. ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"mentha spicata L. Spearmint Herbaceous perennial Naturalized on stream banks and in
... Mentha crispa L. pro parte F mentha spicata x suaveolens Apple mint; ..."
3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1907)
"mentha spicata L. var. Hudson, and must be called mentha spicata Huds. FI. angl.
ed. 1, p. 221 (1762) not Mentha viridis L. Sp. PI., ed. 2, p. 804 (1763). ..."
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