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noun any of various mints of the genus Thymus
noun leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables
originFrom Middle English tyme, from Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon). Displaced native Old English boþen.
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