water mint

Other forms: water mints

Definitions of water mint
  1. noun
    a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America
    synonyms: Mentha aquatica, water-mint
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    type of:
    mint
    any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers
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