The corpus record

ἡδύ-οσμος

eduosmos

sweet-smelling, fragrant

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What it meant — LSJ

sweet-smelling, fragrant

sweet-smelling, fragrant, στρώματα Ar. Fr. 695.

II green mint, Mentha viridis, wild mint, M. longifolia

ἡδύοσμον, τό, = μίνθη, green mint, Mentha viridis, Thphr. HP 7.7.1, Str. 8.3.14; ἡ. ἄγριον wild mint, M. longifolia, Dsc. 3.34. [As trisyll., AP 11.413 (Ammian.).]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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