单词 | apple mint |
释义 | > as lemmasapple mint apple mint n. either of two similar apple-scented mints grown as herbs, Mentha suaveolens, originally of southern Europe (and south-west Britain) and now widely naturalized, and M. × villosa, a hybrid of M. suaveolens and spearmint ( M. spicata); esp. a broad-leaved cultivar of this hybrid, M. × villosa var. alopecuroides. ΚΠ 1883 Times 2 Sept. 10/3 Symons & Co.,..honourable mention for apple mint. 1974 M. Page & W. T. Stearn Culinary Herbs (Wisley Handbk. 16) 33 Round-leaved Mint (M. suaveolens) is a stout vigorous species often known as Apple Mint or M. rotundifolia, a name properly belonging to hybrids of this with M. longifolia. 1997 C. Stace New Flora Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 575 M. × villosa..–Apple mint..Var. alopecuroides..is the usual Apple-mint of gardens; it comes close to M. suaveolens but has spreading leaf-teeth, not folded under, and pink corolla. < as lemmas |
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