mint family

mint family

n.

A large family of aromatic herbs, the Labiatae (or Lamiaceae), including lavender, mint, rosemary, sage, and thyme and characterized by opposite leaves, square stems, bilaterally symmetrical flowers with united petals, and a four-lobed ovary that produces four one-seeded nutlets.

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mint family - 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 family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae asterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales mint - any member of the mint family of plants 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 mind 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 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