English > genus Melissa: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae. |
|---|
| 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 |
|---|