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
   "Lavender is a popular ornamental plant from the family Labiatae";
   - family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Polemoniales, Polemoniales

Encyclopedia: Labiatae