Wikispecies
From spear (“sprout of a plant, spire”) + mint, so named due to its spiry blooms.
spearmint (countable and uncountable, plural spearmints)
- A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
- Synonym: garden mint
Mentha spicata
- Arabic: نَعْنَاع مُدَبَّب m (naʕnāʕ mudabbab)
- Bulgarian: градинска мента f (gradinska menta)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 荷蘭薄荷／荷兰薄荷 (Hélán bòhe) (Dutch mint), 留蘭香／留兰香 (zh) (liúlánxiāng)
- Czech: máta klasnatá f
- Danish: grøn mynte c
- Dutch: aarmunt (nl) f, groene munt f, kruizemunt (nl) f
- Faroese: aksmynta f
- Finnish: viherminttu (fi)
- French: menthe verte (fr) f
- Galician: menta (gl) f, hortelá f
- German: grüne Minze f, krause Minze f
- Greek: δυόσμος (el) m (dyósmos)
- Ancient: ἡδύοσμον n (hēdúosmon)
- Hungarian: fodormenta (hu)
- Irish: cartlainn gharraí f
- Italian: menta romana f, mentastro verde m, menta crispa f
- Japanese: スペアミント (supeaminto)
- Laz: სარილუღიჲ ჭამი (sariluğiy ç̌ami)
- Macanese: hortelám di sopa
- Manx: mynthey gharagh f
- Norman: menthe dé gardîn f
- Polish: mięta zielona f
- Portuguese: hortelã verde f
- Russian: мя́та колоси́стая f (mjáta kolosístaja), мя́та садо́вая f (mjáta sadóvaja)
- Spanish: hierbabuena (es) f
- Swedish: grönmynta c, krusmynta c (curly mint)
- Turkish: kıvırcık nane, eşek nanesi
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