mentha spicata

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   common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring

   Synonymsspearmint

   Broadermint

Questions about mentha spicata

What does mentha spicata mean?

mentha spicata means "common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring".

What is another word for mentha spicata?

Close synonyms include spearmint. 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 spicata a common word?

mentha spicata 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.