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Definition: Spearmint |
SpearmintNoun1. Common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Spearmint \Spear"mint`\, noun. [So named from its spiry, not capitate, inflorescence. --Dr. Prior.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SpearmintSynonym: Mentha spicata (n). (additional references) |
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See also: Altoids
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spearmint."
Crosswords: Spearmint |
| English words defined with "spearmint": spearmint oil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spearmint": Specialty crops. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wrigley's Spearmint the perfect gum / McCandlish Lithograph Corporation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Spearmint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Spearmint" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "spearmint": spearmint oil. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "spearmint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mendër (mint, peppermint), çamçakëz me mente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نعنع, النعناع السنبلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | градинска мента. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 薄荷 (Peppermint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | máta peprná (mint, peppermint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | groen mynte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | groene munt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نعناع(گ.ش.) (Mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viherminttu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | menthe verte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Grüne Minze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηδύοσμοσ (mint, peppermint), δυόσμοσ (mint, peppermint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ע ע (peppermint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fodormenta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | menta verde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 양박. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mynthey gharagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | earmintspay hortelã-verde, hortelã (mint). (various references) мята колосистая, мята (mint, spearmints). (various references) nanin, konjski bosiljak. (various references) menta verde. (various references) grönmynta. (various references) สมุนไพรตระกูลมิ้นท์กลิ่นหอม. (various references) nane (mint, peppermint), bahçe nanesi. (various references) м'ята кучерява. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Mentha spicata, Mentha spicata l, Mentha spicata Linnaeus, Mentha viridis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spearmint": spearmints. (additional references) | |
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"Spearmint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spearamint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: minarets, painters, pantries, pertains, pinaster, primates, pristane, raiments, repaints. | |
-2 letters: anestri, antsier, armpits, arpents, emptins, entraps, etamins, imarets, imparts, impaste, impresa, imprest, inmates, maestri, marines, martens, martins, minaret, minster, minters, mispart, misrate, nastier, painter, paniers, panties, parents, parties, pastern, pastier, pastime, patines, permits, pertain, piaster, piastre, pirates, pitmans, primate, pterins, raiment, rapines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: implanters, protamines, reimplants, restamping, spearmints. | |
+2 letters: hemipterans, impairments, impartments, impersonate, importances, impregnants, impregnates, intercampus, misanthrope, parliaments, paternalism, patrimonies, permeations, planimeters, prestamping, printmakers, sempiternal, trampolines, tryptamines. | |
+3 letters: aminopterins, appraisement, emancipators, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impetrations, importancies, imprecations, impregnators, meanspirited, misanthropes, operationism, paternalisms, permutations, planetariums, predicaments, predominates, prenominates, reassumption, trampoliners, watermanship. | |
+4 letters: anisometropia, anisometropic, appraisements, disparagement, enantiomorphs, impersonality, impersonating, impersonation, impersonators, impregnations, intemperances, intercompares, metropolitans, misanthropies, mousetrapping, operationisms, paramagnetism, paramountcies, passementerie, pedestrianism, preformations, premarketings, proximateness, reassumptions, semipermanent, sempiternally, slipstreaming, spermatogenic, spermatogonia, sportsmanlike, superhumanity, supermilitant, superromantic, temporariness, transshipment, unimportances, watermanships. | |
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