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GENUS MENTHA

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Meaning:

Mint plantsplay

Synonyms:

genus Mentha; Mentha

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Mentha" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Mentha"):

mint (any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Mentha" is a member of...):

family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; 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; thyme; sage; rosemary)

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