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calamint

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several plants in the mint family, especially in the genera Calamintha and Clinopodium, having aromatic foliage and clusters of pink, lilac, or white flowers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A book-name for plants of the genus Calamintha.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the Calamintha Nepeta and Calamintha Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any species of aromatic garden herb of the genus Calamintha.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English calaminte, from Old French calamente, from Medieval Latin calamentum, from Latin calaminthē, from Greek kalaminthē.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French calament (assimilated in English to mint), from Medieval Latin calamentum, from Latin calaminthe, from Ancient Greek καλαμίνθη (kalaminthē).

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Examples

  • Ilva has a herb I've never heard of, Nepitella or lesser calamint.

    Weekend Herb Blogging Year in Review: Weeks 1-10 Kalyn Denny 2006

  • She shares photos of Nepitella, also called lesser calamint which grows wild in the area where she lives.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Kalyn Denny 2005

  • Pandan leaves and lesser calamint--2 new things I learned about today.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #10 Recap Still Discovering New Herbs Kalyn Denny 2005

  • She shares photos of Nepitella, also called lesser calamint which grows wild in the area where she lives.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #10 Recap Still Discovering New Herbs Kalyn Denny 2005

  • Next come the Labiatae: Marrubium vulgare, or common white horehound; Ballota fetida, or stinking horehound; Calamintha nepeta, or lesser calamint; Salvia aethiopis, or woolly sage.

    Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • One says that it is yellow-dock, another that it is bittersweet, another that it is slippery-elm bark, burdock, catnip, calamint, elicampane, thoroughwort, or pennyroyal.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

  • One lovely morning in the late summer, just before the trees were clothed with what is called "gypsy gold," and the bright green of the foliage showed scarcely a touch of bronze -- at that very moment, indeed, when the spirits of all the wild flowers that have left the common and the hedgerow seem to come back for an hour and mingle their half-forgotten perfumes with the new breath of calamint, ground-ivy, and pimpernel, he and a friend were walking towards a certain camp of gryengroes well known to them both.

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

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