calamint

IPA: kʌɫˈæmɪnt

Any species of aromatic garden herb of the genus Calamintha, now often included in Clinopodium.

Examples of "calamint" in Sentences

Ilva has a herb I've never heard of, Nepitella or lesser calamint.
Pandan leaves and lesser calamint--2 new things I learned about today.
She shares photos of Nepitella, also called lesser calamint which grows wild in the area where she lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.