acinos (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *Acinos*:
NOUN	plant	Acinos, genus Acinos	plants closely allied to the genera ... / genera Satureja and Calamintha

English > *Acinos*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	plants closely allied to the genera ... / genera Satureja and Calamintha.
Synonym	genus Acinos
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	basil thyme, basil balm, mother of thyme, Acinos arvensis, Satureja acinos	fragrant European mint having clusters of small violet-and-white flowers
Broader	asterid dicot genus	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
Spanish	acinos, genus acinos
Catalan	acinos, Acinos, genus acinos

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