Other forms: peppermints
Peppermint is a sharp cool flavour taken from a mint plant. Peppermint tea, a peppermint sweet, oil of peppermint.
The cooling is not temperature at all, since the menthol in it triggers the receptors that detect cold, which is the same trick in reverse as chilli. It is a natural hybrid of watermint and spearmint.
1nounpeppermintA sharp cool flavour taken from a mint plant.
“He drank a cup of peppermint tea to settle his stomach.”
peppermint is a flavour.
Pepper plus mint, from the sharpness of the flavour.
From pepper + mint.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA