mint family

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mint family - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mint family
      n 1: 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 [syn: Labiatae, family Labiatae,
           Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family]