(n.) An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.
(n.) A volatile oil (oil of peppermint) distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit (essence of peppermint) obtained from it.
(n.) A lozenge of sugar flavored with peppermint.
Example Sentences:
(1) L-menthol caused a highly significant enhancement of nasal sensation of airflow but despite their great similarity in structure and a similar peppermint smell the isomers D-isomenthol and D-neomenthol had no effect on nasal sensation of airflow.
(2) The British scientists took the peppermint gene responsible and inserted it into the DNA of a spring wheat strain.
(3) The Dream smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake.
(4) Further patch testing revealed hypersensitivity to peppermint oil (an ingredient of several dental preparations) due to the sensitizing properties of three ingredients: alpha-pinene, limonene, and phellandrene.
(5) The data indicate that both menthol and peppermint oil exert Ca2+ channel blocking properties which may underlie their use in irritable bowel syndrome.
(6) A monoterpene cyclase was isolated from both Mentha x piperita (peppermint) and Mentha spicata (spearmint) that catalyzes the cyclization of geranyl pyrophosphate to 4S-limonene.
(7) It is concluded that peppermint oil relaxes gastrointestinal smooth muscle by reducing calcium influx.
(8) It’s not awful but “really rather nice” that she doesn’t have parents because there’s “no one to tell her to go to bed just when she’s having the most fun and no one to make her take cod liver oils when she felt like eating peppermints”.
(9) Testing the inhibitory effects of some natural oils and fatty acids on growth of some of the dermatophytes revealed the high fungistatic effects of clove and peppermint oils.
(10) On day 19, peppermint-familiar pups exposed to peppermint had significantly higher [14C]2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) uptake in a focal glomerular area compared with the response to peppermint by cyclohexanone-familiar pups.
(11) Among 8 food-related odor substances (black pepper, cheese, coffee, milk, nut, peppermint, plum and orange), black pepper, milk and coffee were most preferred, and cheese was least preferred, but even the bar pressing rate for cheese was above the operant level.
(12) Furthermore, Pepp-Stroked pups had a relative behavioral preference for peppermint on day 19 compared to control pups.
(13) Land snails, Cepaea nemoralis, that were exposed for 1-30 min to a novel odor of either peppermint extract or vegetable juice concentrate displayed an increase in the latency of their nociceptive response to an aversive thermal stimulus (40 degrees C, hot-plate).
(14) We also found that cyclohexanone-experienced pups had a subsequent enhanced response to cyclohexanone odor in glomerular areas medial and caudal to those responding to peppermint.
(15) If they needed to try harder, I handed out blue peppermints and said they were Viagra.
(16) Peppermint oil both reduced peak current amplitude and increased the rate of current decay.
(17) Menthol is a major constituent of peppermint oil and is approximately twice as potent as peppermint oil as an inhibitor of K+ depolarization-induced and electrically stimulated responses in ileum and electrically stimulated atrial and papillary muscles.
(18) I can’t stand that peppermint burning smell.” Beauty fled into the false safety of K2.
(19) In this study six pleasant odours, chocolate, vanilla, peppermint, beef, tomato and lemon, were administered to ten subjects.
(20) Upper trapezius, biceps brachii, rectus abdominis, and rectus femoris were monitored electromyographically for changes in muscle action potentials using peppermint oil and smelling salts in each of three positions--supine, seated quietly, and standing.
Wintergreen
Definition:
(n.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluorescent antibody (FA) was prepared for a methanogenic bacterium isolated from Wintergreen Lake pelagic sediment.
(2) FA direct counts of the specific methanogen in Wintergreen Lake sediments were made on four different sampling dates and compared with five-tube most-probable-number estimates of the total methanogenic population that was present in the same samples.
(3) The ability of female mice to return to oestrus following exposure to males perfumed either with oil of wintergreen or with the commercial perfume, "Kanta" was evaluated.
(4) Strict anaerobic culture techniques were used to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria present at the sediment-water interface of hyperutrophic Wintergreen Lake (Augusta, Mich.).
(5) These results are considered strong presumptive evidence that clostridia are actively metabolizing in the sediments of Wintergreen Lake.
(6) Methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen) in the form of candy flavoring was ingested by a 21-month-old male infant who subsequently developed vomiting, lethargy, and hyperpnea.
(7) wintergreen, was presented, but not followed by any event.
(8) wintergreen) on other days which was never followed by food.
(9) The FA did not cross-react with 9 other methanogens, including M. formicicum strains, or 24 heterotrophs, 18 of which had been isolated from Wintergreen Lake sediment.