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单词 mountain mint
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mountain mintn.

Brit. /ˌmaʊntᵻn ˈmɪnt/, U.S. /ˌmaʊnt(ə)n ˈmɪnt/
Forms: see mountain n. and adj. and mint n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: mountain n., mint n.2
Etymology: < mountain n. + mint n.2, after post-classical Latin calamentum montanum (early 13th cent. in a British source).
1. = calamint n. Obsolete.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 556 Calamint, or mountaine Mint.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 419 Mountain-mint..is Pectoral and Hepatick.
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Calamintha Calamintha montana præstantior, the greatest Calamint, or Mountain Mint.
2. U.S. The plant Oswego tea, Monarda didyma. Cf. mountain balm n. 1. Now rare.
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1814 J. Green Addr. Bot. U.S. 58 Monarda. Common Mountain Mint.
1876 C. E. Hobbs Bot. Hand-bk. 72 Mountain mint, Monarda didyma.
1971 A. Krochmal Guide Med. Plants Appalachia 178 Monarda didyma... Common names..mountain mint.
3. U.S. Any of various plants of the genus Pycnanthemum (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)), whose leaves when crushed smell of mint.
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1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 65 Pycnanthemum..aristatum..wild basil, or mountain mint.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Pycnanthemum, the generic name of the Mountain Mints of the United States.
1922 Amer. Botanist 28 122 The present species [sc. Pycnanthemum Virginianum] is so plentifully distributed in rough country as to be fairly entitled to be considered the true mountain mint.
1968 J. McPhee Pine Barrens 130 He showed the group mountain mint and cat briar.
1994 Nature Conservancy Mar. 32/2 Rare plants like Torrey's mountain mint flourish in the seams between the boulders and the forest floor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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