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Definition of Common calamint
1. Noun. Mint-scented perennial of central and southern Europe.
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Literary usage of Common calamint
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1. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"The following are the main points of difference between our new British species
and the common Calamint (C. offici- nalis of Hooker and others). ..."
2. A Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia: Being a Treatise on Pharmacology in by Samuel Frederick Gray (1821)
"*common calamint. Calamintha vulgaris. C. man- tana. ... Used indifferently with
common calamint. *LESSER CALAMINT. ..."
3. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1830)
"common calamint. Flowers in whorls, on branched stalks ; leaves egg-shaped,
serrate : stem erect, downy. Flower- stalks three-forked, the lateral divisions ..."
4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1814)
"1596 common Calamint.Engl. bot. t. 1676. England. lesser Calamint. t. 1414.
Cretan. Barrel, ic. t. 1166. S. of Europe. shrubby. Spain. ..."
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