thymes
SayTYMZ/taɪmz/
- 1Plural of thyme.
The nursery stocks a dozen thymes, from lemon-scented to creeping varieties.
Mediterranean thymes thrive in dry, rocky soil under full sun.
Note
A plural that appears only when the herb is counted by kind. In the kitchen, thyme is a mass noun (a pinch of thyme, fresh thyme in the soup) and takes no plural. Once the talk turns to the many plants of the labiate genus Thymus, from garden thyme to its relatives, each kind becomes countable. Growers then speak of thymes the way they speak of mints.
thymes is a form of thyme
thyme, noun: An aromatic herb of the genus Thymus in the mint family, with a warm, pungent flavor, used to season soups and savory dishes. Full entry
- Forms
- thymethymes plural
- Spelling
- thyme → thymes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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