ocimum

English Thesaurus

1. basil (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	asterid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	basil,
definition	:	any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family labiatae, family lamiaceae, labiatae, lamiaceae, mint family,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)