melissa officinalis

Questions about melissa officinalis

What does melissa officinalis mean?

melissa officinalis 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".

What is another word for melissa officinalis?

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

melissa officinalis 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.