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MELISSA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Melissa mean?
• MELISSA (noun)
The noun MELISSA has 1 sense:
1. a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae
Familiarity information: MELISSA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Melissa; Melissa
Hypernyms ("Melissa" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Melissa"):
bee balm; beebalm; garden balm; lemon balm; Melissa officinalis; sweet balm (bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves; a garden escapee in northern Europe and North America)
Holonyms ("Melissa" is a member of...):
family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; 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)
Context examples
Jia's team was inspired to dive back into the Galileo data by Melissa McGrath of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)
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