basil mint

1. 1.

   perennial herb of the eastern United States having inconspicuous greenish flowers and narrow leaves that are very aromatic when bruised

   SynonymsPycnanthemum virginianum

   Broadermountain mint

Questions about basil mint

What does basil mint mean?

basil mint means "perennial herb of the eastern United States having inconspicuous greenish flowers and narrow leaves that are very aromatic when bruised".

What is another word for basil mint?

Close synonyms include Pycnanthemum virginianum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is basil mint a common word?

basil mint is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.