asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, mint family - the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary

basil - any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum