NOUN
- an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico
- a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States
- tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico
How To Use horsemint In A Sentence
- They smelled of Sierra Free dish detergent scented with calendula and horsemint. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- I could stand downwind of those horsemints while working them over with the bullwhip and it really smelled nice as the plants were shredded to pieces.
- Horehound, horsemint, and the sensitive fern grew close to the edge, under the willows and alders, and wool-grass on the islands, as along the Assabet River in Concord. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
- She felt his brimming strength, the magnetism in his bones, and she saw herself as if through his eyes backsprawled in a ruffle of grass and horsemint. In Other Worlds
- There are horsemints and mountain mints.
- And a nice day to you too - the drought hasn't yet broken out in forest fires; one of the local does has triplets and her efforts to wean them are comical to everyone but the indignant fawns; the horsemint is out and aphrodite fritillaries are thronging it - although I have to say that 'throning' is kind of a euphemism for what the wanton butterflies are actually doing to those stamens and pistils. A Saturday coffeehouse.
- They smelled of Sierra Free dish detergent scented with calendula and horsemint. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- But, nature is a bolder artist than even the daring scenic painters; in front of me was a prairie of flowers, acres and acres of waving, undulating masses of color; thousands of Arizona wyetha (wild sunflowers) mingled with the brilliant tips of the fire-weed and clumps of odorous and delicately colored horsemint. The Black Wolf Pack
- When it dries, wet it again with cold water poured on the bandage, "she finished in a rush, then paused to think" And dried horsemint flowers and leaves are good for scalds; wet them in the hand and put them on the burn. The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Monarda punctata, L. Dotted monarda; horsemint; origanum. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
