large-flowered calamint
- noun
- UK
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calaminta de flores grandes
- The large-flowered calamint is prized by gardeners for its showy pink blossoms.
Examples
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In southern Europe, you can often find large-flowered calamint growing in the wild.
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Her tea recipe called for fresh leaves from a large-flowered calamint plant.
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The large-flowered calamint blooms beautifully in the garden.
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Is the large-flowered calamint easy to grow?
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In southern Europe, you can often find large-flowered calamint growing in the wild.
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Her tea recipe called for fresh leaves from a large-flowered calamint plant.
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The large-flowered calamint is prized by gardeners for its showy pink blossoms.
Synonyms
An herb with large pink flowers and a mild minty smell
A plant with a pleasant smell and large pink flowers that grows in southern Europe and western Asia
A fragrant herb with large pink flowers often used to flavor food
Surface Forms
Morphology
large-flowered + calamint
The meaning is directly compositional: 'large-flowered' denotes having large flowers and 'calamint' names an aromatic herb, so together they mean a calamint with large flowers. This adjective + noun compounding is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Large-flowered calamint may come from old words meaning 'beautiful' and 'mint', so it creates the image of a mint plant with large, showy flowers. The parts large-flowered and calamint point to a 'mint' with 'large' blooms, which explains why the name describes this scented herb.
