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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wild thyme. Thymus Serpyllum. See
thyme .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An aromatic plant (
Thymus Serphyllum ); -- called alsowild thyme .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Thymus praecox, a variety of
thyme .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fragrant European mint having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers; naturalized especially in eastern North America
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Wild thyme, or mother-of-thyme (_T. serpyllum_, Linn.), is a less grown perennial, with violet or pink flowers.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains
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