English > mint: 8 senses > noun 1, quantity| Meaning | (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. |
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| Example | "he made a mint on the stock market" |
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| Synonyms | 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 |
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| Narrower | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent | An overwhelming number or amount |
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| haymow | A mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation |
| Broader | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount | An indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude |
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| Spanish | avalancha, barbaridad, bestialidad, burrada, cantidad, cúmulo, enormidad, fajo, lote, mogollón, montaña, montón, multitud, passel, pila |
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| Catalan | apilament, apilotament, castell, cúmul, estiba, feix, lot, manyoc, muntanya, munt, passel, pila, pilot, quantitat, tou |
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English > mint: 8 senses > noun 2, plant| Meaning | Any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers. |
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| Member of | Mentha, genus Mentha | mint plants |
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| Parts | mint | The leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied |
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| Narrower | apple mint, applemint, Mentha rotundifolia, Mentha suaveolens | mint with apple-scented stems of southern and western Europe |
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| bergamot mint, lemon mint, eau de cologne mint, Mentha citrata | mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange |
| corn mint, field mint, Mentha arvensis | European mint naturalized in United States |
| horsemint, Mentha longifolia | A coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers |
| pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium | Eurasian perennial mint have small lilac-blue flowers and ovate leaves |
| peppermint, Mentha piperita | herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring |
| spearmint, Mentha spicata | Common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring |
| water-mint, water mint, Mentha aquatica | A European mint that thrives in wet places |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
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| Spanish | menta |
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| Catalan | menta |
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