WordNet
n. the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary [syn: Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae]
Usage examples of "mint family".
Of the members of the mint family under cultivation the most important are the several varieties of the Peppermint (Mentha piperita), extensively cultivated for years as the source of the well-known volatile oil of Peppermint, used as a flavouring and therapeutic agent.
Lavender is in the mint family, after all, and I admire her now, thinking back, for trying that.
This plant has nothing to do with either of the well- known Artichokes both of which belong to the Compositae family, whereas this belongs to the Mint family, Labiatae, and to the same genus that is represented here by the Woundworts and Wood Betony.