Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various aromatic plants of the genus Monarda in the mint family, including horsemint, Oswego tea, and wild bergamot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Monarda.
- noun A genus of labiate plants, type of the tribe Monardeæ, characterized by the anthers having a very small connective, the cells confluent into one, and by having a tubular calyx with fifteen nerves, which is almost equally five-toothed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
genus Monarda offlowering plants , thebergamots orbee balms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The flowers that afford the most decided perfumes are our wild roses, which possess a delicious scent: the milk-weed, which gives out a smell not-unlike the night-blowing stock; the purple monarda, which is fragrance itself from the root to the flower, and even after months 'exposure to the wintry atmosphere; its dried leaves and seed-vessels are so sweet as to impart perfume to your hands or clothes.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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I have monarda 'Raspberry Wine' at home and am always thrilled by it.
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It was pure luck to have so many bees on the monarda.
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I do believe that is monarda ‘Raspberry Wine’ or a near twin as it looks remarkably like my RW.
Belated Bloom Day Of June-Garden To Jungle In Seven Days « Fairegarden 2010
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The Jacob was so far ahead of my other monarda varieties that I had to deadhead this week.
Belated Bloom Day Of June-Garden To Jungle In Seven Days « Fairegarden 2010
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Amazing pictures, especially that one where the three creatures are attacking a monarda flower!
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I like the monarda and those Asiatic lilies look awesome!
Belated Bloom Day Of June-Garden To Jungle In Seven Days « Fairegarden 2010
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Jacob Cline monarda sports a double decker doozy of a bloom and the Asclepias is forming new buds for a rebloom.
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I jinxed myself by saying that my monarda had no mildew, as it promptly developed some!
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I tried to get monarda to grow in my garden for several years.
Friday Night Photos: Flowers Blooming in My Front Yard Kalyn Denny 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word monarda
beebalm, bergamot
September 3, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word monarda
beebalm, bergamot
September 3, 2007