lemon balm

Questions about lemon balm

What does lemon balm mean?

lemon balm means "bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves; a garden escapee in northern Europe and North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for lemon balm?

Close synonyms include garden balm, sweet balm, bee balm, beebalm, Melissa officinalis. 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 lemon balm a common word?

lemon balm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.