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GENUS MENTHA

• GENUS MENTHA (noun)
The noun GENUS MENTHA has 1 sense:

1. mint plants

Familiarity information: GENUS MENTHA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS MENTHA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mint plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Mentha; Mentha

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 (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)

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