英语词汇“Mentha”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Mentha

/ˈmɛnθə/

Botany

noun

A genus of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae), consisting of various strongly aromatic plants, especially herbs, with spikes or whorls of small lilac flowers having four equal stamens and a four-lobed corolla; (also mentha) a plant of this genus, a mint.

The genus includes such herbs as spearmint, Mentha spicata subsp. spicata, peppermint M.× piperita, and pennyroyal, M. pulegium..

Origin

Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From classical Latin mentha mint (adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum II. 576, after J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariae I. 188).

单词	Mentha
释义	Mentha /ˈmɛnθə/ Botany noun A genus of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae), consisting of various strongly aromatic plants, especially herbs, with spikes or whorls of small lilac flowers having four equal stamens and a four-lobed corolla; (also mentha) a plant of this genus, a mint. The genus includes such herbs as spearmint, Mentha spicata subsp. spicata, peppermint M.× piperita, and pennyroyal, M. pulegium.. Origin Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From classical Latin mentha mint (adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum II. 576, after J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariae I. 188).
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