| 单词 | mint |
| 释义 | mint (once / 1161 pages) 1n 2nvadj 3n WORD FAMILY mint: mintage, minted, minter, minting, mints+/mintage: mintages/minter: minters USAGE EXAMPLESBut on the plus side, Europe minted – foaled? The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) A 50p coin will mark the achievements of mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, a one-time Master of the Royal Mint. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) “It’s chocolate, it’s mint, it’s all the delicious together,” he says. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n any member of the mint family of plants Hyper Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, mint family a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary 2n any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers Hypo|Hyper Mentha arvensis, corn mint, field mint European mint naturalized in United States Mentha aquatica, water mint, water-minta European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America Mentha citrata, bergamot mint, eau de cologne mint, lemon mintmint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange Mentha longifolia, horseminta coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States Mentha piperita, peppermintherb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring Mentha spicata, spearmintcommon garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens, apple mint, applemintmint with apple-scented stems of southern and western Europe; naturalized in United States Mentha pulegium, pennyroyalEurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves; yields an aromatic oil herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 3n the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied Hyper herb aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities 4n a candy that is flavored with a mint oil 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper mint candy peppermint, peppermint candy a candy flavored with peppermint oil candy, confect a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts 1n a plant where money is coined by authority of the government Exp|Hyper United States Mint the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks; processes gold and silver bullion industrial plant, plant, works buildings for carrying on industrial labor 2v form by stamping, punching, or printing Syn|Hyper coin, strike create from raw material, create from raw stuff make from scratch 3adj as if new 3in mint condition Syn perfect being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent he made a mint on the stock market Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
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