family Lamiaceae

Definitions of family Lamiaceae
  1. noun
    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: Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Labiatae, mint family
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    types:
    mint
    any member of the mint family of plants
    type of:
    asterid dicot family
    family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
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