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
   - family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Polemoniales, Polemoniales

Encyclopedia: Labiatae

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