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    Peppermint is a type of mint plant with a strong, cool, slightly sharp taste. People use it to make tea, candy (like peppermint candy canes at Christmas), gum, and . The taste feels cool in your mouth, almost like a light , even though the plant itself isn't cold.

    薄荷(尤指胡椒薄荷),常見於糖果、口香糖、牙膏。

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組成pepper + mint - a compound word: "pepper" for its slightly sharp bite, plus "mint", the plant family it belongs to.

同家族的字

  • spearmintshares "mint" - another kind of mint plant, named for its spear-shaped leaves

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peppermintnoun/ˈpɛpəˌmɪnt/

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    A hybrid herb of the mint family (Mentha × piperita), formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.

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    Any of various eucalypts of southeastern Australia whose leaves yield peppermint-like essential oils.

    • In the hissing flames, Greenhill and Travers boiled the bark from peppermint gums and roasted their kangaroo-skin jackets.
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    Any of various sweets containing extract of the peppermint herb; peppermint confectionery.

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