mentha piperita

1. 1.

   herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring

   Synonymspeppermint

   Broadermint

Questions about mentha piperita

What does mentha piperita mean?

mentha piperita means "herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring".

What is another word for mentha piperita?

Close synonyms include peppermint. 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 piperita a common word?

mentha piperita 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.