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PEPPERMINT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A candy flavored with peppermint oil

Synonyms:

peppermint; peppermint candy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("peppermint" is a kind of...):

mint; mint candy (a candy that is flavored with a mint oil)

Meronyms (substance of "peppermint"):

peppermint oil (oil from the peppermint plant used as flavoring)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Red gum tree of Tasmania

Synonyms:

Eucalyptus amygdalina; peppermint; peppermint gum; red gum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("peppermint" is a kind of...):

eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring

Synonyms:

Mentha piperita; peppermint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("peppermint" is a kind of...):

mint (any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers)

Meronyms (substance of "peppermint"):

peppermint oil (oil from the peppermint plant used as flavoring)

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 Context examples: 

When aloe/anise/ascorbic acid/clove/peppermint/spearmint/thyme-based mouthwash is used as a rinse, the ingredients in this agent may prevent or decrease inflammation and bacterial infections.This may prevent or inhibit radiotherapy- or chemotherapy-induced mucositis and decreases the pain associated with mucositis.

(Aloe/Anise/Ascorbic Acid/Clove/Peppermint/Spearmint/Thyme-based Mouthwash, NCI Thesaurus)

Sometimes, to make it a more sovereign specific, he was so kind as to squeeze orange juice into it, or to stir it up with ginger, or dissolve a peppermint drop in it; and although I cannot assert that the flavour was improved by these experiments, or that it was exactly the compound one would have chosen for a stomachic, the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, I drank it gratefully and was very sensible of his attention.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.); Half-quartern gin and cloves (Mrs. C.); Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)—the parentheses always referring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation, to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)