mint family

Questions about mint family

What does mint family mean?

mint family 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 mint family?

Close synonyms include Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae. 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 mint family a common word?

mint family 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.