mentha longifolia

1. 1.

   a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States

   Synonymshorsemint

   Broadermint

Questions about mentha longifolia

What does mentha longifolia mean?

mentha longifolia means "a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States".

What is another word for mentha longifolia?

Close synonyms include horsemint. 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 mentha longifolia a common word?

mentha longifolia 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.