water-mint

1. 1.

   a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America

   Synonymswater mintMentha aquatica

   Broadermint

Questions about water-mint

What does water-mint mean?

water-mint means "a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America".

How many syllables are in water-mint?

water-mint has 3 syllables: wa-ter--mint. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for water-mint?

Close synonyms include water mint, Mentha aquatica. 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 water-mint a common word?

water-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.