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单词 field mint
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field mint
field mint n. a wild mint, Mentha arvensis, widespread in north temperate regions with clusters of pale pink to purple flowers; also called corn mint.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 316 Mentasri, feldminte.
OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 301 Mentarium, feldminte.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §518 We see that Water-mint turneth into field-mint and the Colewort into Rape by neglect.
1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 421 Field Mint... Not uncommon.—When eaten in large quantities by cows, from extreme hunger, it is said to prevent their milk from yielding curd.
1815 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 361 We think the field mint (Mentha arvensis) may be destroyed best by August culture, when its top is buried and its white roots exposed.
1922 Amer. Botanist 28 120 The only species [of mint] native to both sides of the ocean is Mentha arvensis which is known as field mint and corn mint for growing in cultivated fields.
1999 H. W. Phillips Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers 41 Hikers and canoeists often smell the strong aroma of field mint, crushed underfoot, before they see it.
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