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MINT FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary
Synonyms:
family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mint family" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "mint family"):
genus Melissa; Melissa (a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae)
genus Mentha; Mentha (mint plants)
genus Micromeria; Micromeria (large genus of fragrant chiefly Old World herbs)
genus Molucella; Molucella (small genus of aromatic herbs of Mediterranean regions; widely cultivated)
genus Monarda (wild bergamot, horsemint, beebalm)
genus Monardella; Monardella (a genus of fragrant herbs of the family Labiatae in the western United States)
genus Nepeta; Nepeta (catmint)
genus Ocimum; Ocimum (basil)
genus Perilla; Perilla (small genus of Asiatic herbs)
genus Phlomis (large genus of Old World aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs having often woolly leaves)
genus Physostegia (genus of North American perennial herbs)
genus Plectranthus (large genus of ornamental flowering plants; includes some plants often placed in the genus Coleus)
genus Pogostemon; Pogostemon (genus of Asiatic shrubs or trees whose leaves yield a fragrant oil)
genus Prunella; Prunella (small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers)
genus Koellia; genus Pycnanthemum; Koellia; Pycnanthemum (American mountain mint)
genus Rosmarinus; Rosmarinus (rosemary)
genus Salvia (large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sage)
genus Satureia; genus Satureja; Satureia; Satureja (savory)
genus Scutellaria; Scutellaria (an asterid dicot genus that includes the skullcaps)
genus Sideritis; Sideritis (genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region)
genus Solenostemon; Solenostemon (genus of shrubby often succulent herbs of tropical Africa and Asia; includes some plants often placed in genus Coleus)
genus Stachys; Stachys (large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia)
genus Teucrium; Teucrium (large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia)
genus Thymus; Thymus (large genus of Old World mints: thyme)
genus Trichostema; Trichostema (genus of North American aromatic herbs or subshrubs: blue curls)
Acinos; genus Acinos (plants closely allied to the genera Satureja and Calamintha)
Agastache; genus Agastache (giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop)
Ajuga; genus Ajuga (bugle)
Ballota; genus Ballota (perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound)
Blephilia; genus Blephilia (small genus of North American herbs: wood mints)
Calamintha; genus Calamintha (calamint)
Clinopodium; genus Clinopodium (wild basil)
Collinsonia; genus Collinsonia (small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States)
genus Coleus (genus of Old World tropical plants cultivated for their variegated leaves; various plants sometimes placed in genera Plectranthus or Solenostemon)
Conradina; genus Conradina (small genus of low aromatic shrubs of southeastern United States)
Dracocephalum; genus Dracocephalum (genus of American herbs and dwarf shrubs of the mint family: dragonheads)
genus Elsholtzia (genus of Asiatic and African aromatic herbs)
Galeopsis; genus Galeopsis (erect annual European herbs)
genus Glechoma; Glechoma (ground ivy)
genus Hedeoma; Hedeoma (small genus of American herbs (American pennyroyal))
genus Hyssopus; Hyssopus (Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs)
genus Lamium; Lamium (genus of Old World herbs: dead nettles; henbits)
genus Lavandula; Lavandula (lavender)
genus Leonotis; Leonotis (small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of South Africa)
genus Leonurus; Leonurus (genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls)
genus Lepechinia; genus Sphacele; Lepechinia; Sphacele (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Labiatae)
genus Lycopus; Lycopus (small genus of herbs of the mint family)
genus Origanum (a genus of aromatic mints of the family Labiatae)
genus Majorana; Majorana (small genus of herbs usually included in the genus Origanum)
genus Marrubium; Marrubium (Old World aromatic herbs: horehound)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mint family"):
mint (any member of the mint family of plants)
Holonyms ("mint family" is a member of...):
order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)
