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Noun: horsemint  'hors,mint
  1. Tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico
    - Monarda punctata
     
  2. An annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico
    - lemon mint, Monarda citriodora
     
  3. A coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States
    - Mentha longifolia

Derived forms: horsemints

Type of: mint, monarda, wild bergamot

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