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Noun: family Lamiaceae
  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
    - Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, mint family

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Polemoniales, Polemoniales

Nearest

family Jungermanniaceae
family Kalotermitidae
family Kasuwonidae
family Kinosternidae
family Kyphosidae
family Labiatae
family Labridae
family Lacertidae
family Lactobacillaceae
family Lactobacteriaceae
family Lamiaceae
family Laminariaceae
family Lamnidae
family Lampridae
family Lampyridae
family Laniidae
family Lanthanotidae
family Lardizabalaceae
family Laricariidae
family Laridae
family Lasiocampidae