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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。
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
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。