Word Meanings - MENTHA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.

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• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• DISTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.
• DENSELY
  In a dense, compact manner.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• PEPPERMINT
  An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. 2. A volatile oil distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit obtained from it. 3. A lozenge of sugar flavored
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SPEARMINT
  A species of mint growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
• DENSENESS
  The quality of being dense; density.
• DISTRIBUTION
  A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena
• WIDELY
  1. In a wide manner; to a wide degree or extent; far; extensively; as, the gospel was widely disseminated by the apostles. 2. Very much; to a great degree or extent; as, to differ widely in opinion.
• DISTRIBUTIVE
  Assigning the species of a general term. (more info) 1. Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share. "Distributive justice." Swift.
• DISTRIBUTARY
  Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
• DISTRIBUTER
  One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Addison.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• EXTRAAXILLAR; EXTRAAXILLARY
  Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
• TEMPOROMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
• SUPRA-AXILLARY
  Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• INTERAXILLARY
  Situated within or between the axils of leaves.
• SUBAXILLARY
  Situated under the axilla, or armpit.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SEPTOMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n.
• CONDENSER
  An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
• SUPRAMAXILLARY
  Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve. Of or pertaining to the upper jaw.
• SUPERMAXILLARY
  Supermaxillary.