Word Meanings - PEPPERMINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.

• PLANTEATING
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Plantation
  The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth.
• Plant-cane
  A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.
• Plant-eating
  Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle.
• Aromatical
  Pertaining to, or containing, aroma; fragrant; spicy; strong-scented; odoriferous; as, aromatic balsam.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• Confectionery
  Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• Plantless
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• Plantlet
  A little plant.
• Plantocracy
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.

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