mint geranium

Questions about mint geranium

What does mint geranium mean?

mint geranium means "tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum".

What is another word for mint geranium?

Close synonyms include costmary, alecost, bible leaf, balsam herb, Tanacetum balsamita. 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 mint geranium a common word?

mint geranium 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.