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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mar·jo·ram n.  Bot. A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species.  The sweet marjoram (Origanum Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery.  The wild marjoram of Europe and America is Origanum vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Origanum majorana
      n : aromatic European plant native to Mediterranean and Turkey;
          not widespread in Europe [syn: sweet marjoram, knotted
           marjoram, Majorana hortensis]