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mint family

mɪnt ˈfæməli
WordNet
  1. (n) mint family
    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
Usage in the news

Eater Cathy Sander is heading to a family reunion in North Carolina this summer where she and her husband plan to serve mint julep s -- the better to keep the relatives cool, relaxed and harmonizing. seattletimes.nwsource.com

The stories of one of San Clemente's most well known surfing families will be the subject of an art exhibit at the Mint Fine Art Gallery Saturday. sanclementetimes.com

George and Helene Mueller hosted their annual Hawaiian Luau at their home in Mint Hill for neighbors, family and friends on Saturday, August 29. minthilltimes.com

A family drama with stinging turns of dark comedy, the latest from Udall ( The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint ) is a superb performance and as comic as it is sublimely catastrophic. publishersweekly.com

Stones are flying around the "glass house" as family members battle for freedom from a tight-fisted tyrant, in "Rutherford & Son," another rediscovered gem currently performing off-Broadway at The Mint Theater. crescent-news.com

Usage in scientific papers

By studying the behaviour of g at the limit nodes we observe that for each ǫ > 0 the tree T can be decomposed into a family of compact clopen subsets {Cγ }γ such that maxt∈Cγ g (t) − mint∈Cγ g (t) < ǫ for each γ .
Convex-transitivity of Banach algebras via ideals

Usage in literature

The sage, mints, catnip, thyme, lavender, etc., will recall the peculiarities of the family. "Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany" by Douglas Houghton Campbell

Certain families, as ferns and orchids, go well together; mints and figworts are allied. "Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895" by Various

I have always taken it to be a member of the mint family. "Oldfield" by Nancy Huston Banks

It may be known from the other members of the Mint family by its campanulate calyx with ten strong, recurved teeth. "The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits" by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Nepeta cataria L. Mint family. "Texas Honey Plants" by C. E. Sanborn

Usage in poetry
So little Hop-o'-my-Thumb made mints of money,
And his whole family
Lived very easy lives, and from his bounty
Grew rich as rich could be.