| NOUN | plant | genus Melissa, Melissa | a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae |
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| Meaning | A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae. | |
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| Synonym | 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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