peppermint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pepper + mint.
Compound parts: pepper
mint
Inflected forms:
form: peppermints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various eucalypts of southeastern Australia whose leaves yield peppermint-like essential oils.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
examples: In the hissing flames, Greenhill and Travers boiled the bark from peppermint gums and roasted their kangaroo-skin jackets.
gloss: Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: peppermint bark
peppermint drop
peppermint geranium
peppermintini
peppermintlike
peppermint oil
peppermint shrimp
peppermint stick
peppermint tree
pepperminty
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: nenexhik
lang: Albanian
word: dhiozmë
lang: Albanian
word: mendër e butë
lang: Arabic
word: نَعْنَاع فِلْفِلِيّ
roman: naʕnāʕ filfiliyy
lang: Armenian
word: անանուխ
roman: ananux
lang: Bulgarian
word: мента
roman: menta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 胡椒薄荷
roman: hújiāo bòhe
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 薄荷
roman: bòhe
lang: Czech
word: máta peprná
lang: Danish
word: pebermynte
lang: Dutch
word: pepermunt
lang: Esperanto
word: pipromento
lang: Estonian
word: piparmünt
lang: Finnish
word: piparminttu
lang: French
word: menthe poivrée
lang: Galician
word: menta
lang: German
word: Pfefferminze
lang: Greek
word: μέντα
roman: ménta
lang: Hindi
word: पुदीना
roman: pudīnā
lang: Hungarian
word: borsmenta
lang: Hunsrik
word: Peffermenz
lang: Icelandic
word: piparminta
lang: Indonesian
word: pepermin
lang: Irish
word: lus an phiobair
lang: Irish
word: miontas piobair
lang: Italian
word: menta piperita
lang: Japanese
word: ペパーミント
roman: pepāminto
lang: Japanese
word: 薄荷
roman: hakka
lang: Japanese
word: ミント
roman: minto
lang: Korean
word: 페퍼민트
roman: pepeominteu
lang: Latvian
word: piparmētra
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Peffermënz
lang: Malay
word: pudina
lang: Manx
word: mynthey phibbyragh
lang: Norman
word: pépermàn
lang: Norman
word: p'pèr'mène
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: peppermynte
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: peparmynte
lang: Persian
word: پونه
roman: pune
lang: Polish
word: mięta pieprzowa
lang: Portuguese
word: hortelã-pimenta
lang: Russian
word: пе́речная мя́та
roman: pérečnaja mjáta
lang: Russian
word: мя́та
roman: mjáta
lang: Sanskrit
word: अजगन्ध
roman: ajagandha
lang: Slovene
word: poprova meta
lang: Spanish
word: menta piperita
lang: Spanish
word: piperita
lang: Swedish
word: pepparmynta
lang: Tagalog
word: menta
lang: Turkish
word: nane
lang: Turkish
word: bahçe nanesi
lang: Urdu
word: پودینا
roman: podīnā
lang: Welsh
word: mintys poeth
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿעפֿערמינץ
roman: fefermints
lang: Yiddish
word: ענגלישע מענטע
roman: englishe mente
lang: Danish
word: pebermynte
lang: Dutch
word: pepermunt
lang: Dutch
word: pepermuntje
lang: Finnish
word: piparminttukaramelli
lang: German
word: Pfefferminzbonbon
lang: German
word: Pfefferminz
lang: Icelandic
word: piparminta
lang: Indonesian
word: pepermin
lang: Italian
word: caramella alla menta
lang: Italian
word: mentina
lang: Norman
word: pépermàn
lang: Norman
word: p'pèr'mène
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: peppermynte
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: peparmynte
lang: Polish
word: miętówka
lang: Turkish
word: nane şekeri