family labiatae

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsLabiataeLamiaceaefamily Lamiaceaemint family

   Broaderasterid dicot family

   Narrowermint

   Part ofPolemoniales

Questions about family labiatae

What does family labiatae mean?

family labiatae means "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".

What is another word for family labiatae?

Close synonyms include Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family labiatae a common word?

family labiatae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.