Marjoram

[Sarah]

A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromaticand fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europeand America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

[Sonia]

a sweet Mediterranean herb used to flavour food

[Dorothey Allen]

An aromatic southern European plant of the mint family, the leaves of which are used as a culinary herb.