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单词 lady's mint
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Lady's mint
Lady's mint n. [in quot. 1882 after German †Frauenmünze (17th cent. or earlier; now Frauenminze ); contrary to the suggestion in the quot., the German form with -ü- simply reflects a variant of Minze mint n.2)] Obsolete rare spearmint, Mentha spicata; cf. earlier Our Lady's mint n. at Our Lady n. Compounds 2b.
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1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 94 Its German name of Frauenmünze (Lady's Mint, applied also to the Spearmint, with perhaps a pun on the word Münze, which our word ‘mint’ exactly reproduces).
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Lady's (Our) Mint. Mentha viridis.
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