singular.
(Of the Dim. of cotton swab).
1. m. product of cloth, steeped in a liquid, is wet and cool the mouth and the throat of the sick.
2. m. Mata of the family of the Labiatae, with woody stems of three decimetres of height, leaves small, leathery, green, glossy, lanceolate, linear and integer, flowers in lax whorls, corolla white or rósea, and the fruit dry with several tiny seeds. It is something used in medicine as a tonic and stomach, useful for condiments and aromatic plant.