Pennyroyal

Definitions: Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal

Noun

1. Eurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves; yields an aromatic oil.

2. Erect hairy branching American herb having purple-blue flowers; yields an essential oil used as an insect repellent and sometimes in folk medicine.

Date "pennyroyal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Pennyroyal \Pen`ny*roy"al\, noun. [A corruption of Old English puliall royal. Old English puliall is ultimately derived from Latin puleium, or pulegium regium (so called as being good against fleas), from pulex flea; and royal is translation of Latin regium, in puleium regium.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Pennyroyal

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Pennyroyal Flea-bane, the odour being, as it is supposed, hateful to fleas This is a real curiosity of blundering derivation. The Latin word is pulecium, the flea destroyer, from pulex, a flea, softened into pulegium, and corrupted into the English-Latin pule'-regium. "Pule," changed first into puny, then into penny, gives us "penny-regium," whence "penny-royal." The French call the herb pouliot, from pou (a louse or flea). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Pennyroyal

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The herb Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), is a member of the mint family; an essential oil extracted from it is used in aromatherapy - note that as pennyroyal has a traditional folk medicine use in inducing abortions, pregnant women should avoid the use of the oil.

The oil is also used as a flea repellant for pets. This latter usage is the origin of the plant's Latin species name, the flea being Pulex irritans.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pennyroyal."

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Synonyms: Pennyroyal

Synonyms: American pennyroyal (n), Hedeoma pulegioides (n), Mentha pulegium (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pennyroyal

English words defined with "pennyroyal": American pennyroyal ♦ bastard pennyroyal, Blue curls ♦ genus Hedeoma ♦ Hedeoma, hedeoma oil ♦ Penny grass, pennyroyal oil, Pudding grass. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pennyroyal

Domain	Title
Books	Pennyroyal (reference) Pennyroyal (Lythway Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Putnam and Pennyroyal (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Pennyroyal

"Pennyroyal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Pennyroyal" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	75%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	25%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

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Expressions: Pennyroyal

Expressions using "pennyroyal": american pennyroyal ♦ Bastard pennyroyal ♦ pennyroyal oil. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pennyroyal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pennyroyal	83
pennyroyal tea	22
pennyroyal oil	12
lyrics pennyroyal tea	7
pennyroyal herb	6
pennyroyal tab tea	4
pennyroyal picture	3
pennyroyal scuba	3
pennyroyal plant	3
center pennyroyal	2
pennyroyal quarry	2
lyrics nirvana pennyroyal tea	2
mint pennyroyal	2
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Modern Translations: Pennyroyal

Language		Translations for "pennyroyal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		бласкун, полски джоджен. (various references)

Danish		polejmynte (European pennyroyal). (various references)

Dutch		polei (European pennyroyal). (various references)

Finnish		puolanminttu (European pennyroyal). (various references)

French		menthe pouliot (European pennyroyal), herbe aux puces (European pennyroyal). (various references)

German		Poleiminze (European pennyroyal), Flohkraut (European pennyroyal). (various references)

Greek		βλήχων, φλησκούνι, ηδύοσμος ο γλήχων (European pennyroyal). (various references)

Italian		menta selvatica (corn mint, European pennyroyal, field mint, tule mint), menta romana, menta puleggia (European pennyroyal). (various references)

Manx		lurgeydish. (various references)

Pig Latin		ennyroyalpay

Portuguese		escritor assalariado. (various references)

Romanian		busuiocul cerbilor. (various references)

Russian		мята болотная, блоховник. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		buhača. (various references)

Spanish		poleo (European pennyroyal), menta poleo (European pennyroyal). (various references)

Swedish		polejmynta (European pennyroyal), mynta (coin, mint). (various references)

Turkish		yarpuz. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Pennyroyal

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mentha pulegium. (various references)
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Derivations: Pennyroyal

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pennyroyal": pennyroyals. (additional references)
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Rhyming with "Pennyroyal"

Words rhyming with "pennyroyal" (pronounced 'Pen`ny*roy"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Bestowal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Botryoid, Botryoidal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pennyroyal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-n-o-p-r-y-y"
	-3 letters: annoyer, nonplay, planner, plenary, polynya, pronely.
	-4 letters: anyone, lanner, loaner, napery, nearly, nonpar, openly, parley, parole, pearly, planer, player, poleyn, prolan, pyrola, pyrone, reloan, replan, replay, ronnel, yarely, yearly.
	-5 letters: alone, annoy, anole, apery, apron, arpen, early, enrol, layer, learn, leary, loner, loper, loran, nerol, nonyl, nopal, nylon, onery, opera, paeon, paler, panel.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-n-o-p-r-y-y"
	+1 letter: pennyroyals.
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