melissa (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Melissa*:
NOUN	plant	Melissa, genus Melissa	a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae

Melissa > pronunciation
Sounds	mahlih'sah
Rhymes	balsa ... Walesa: 36 rhymes with sah...

English > *Melissa*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae.
Synonym	genus Melissa
Member of	Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family	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
Members	lemon balm, garden balm, sweet balm, bee balm, beebalm, Melissa officinalis	bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves
Broader	asterid dicot genus	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
Spanish	genus melissa, melissa
Catalan	genus melissa, melissa, Melissa, melisse

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