• (RP, GA) IPA: /məˈlɪsə/

melissa (plural melissas)

1. A plant#Noun|plant of the genus Melissa, especially lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), often used medicinally.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Alternatiues, Hearbes, Other Creatures, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition 2, section 4, member 1, subsection 3, page 300 ↗:

     Meliſſa, Bawme, hath an excellent vertue to alter Melancholy, bee it ſteeped in our ordinary drinke, extracted, or otherwise taken.

• dropsywort
• honey plant (one sense)

• French: mélisse
• German: Melisse
• Russian: мели́сса

• (America) IPA: /məˈlɪsə/

1. (Greek god) Bee-nymph in Greek mythology.
2. A female given name. Popular in the latter half of the 20th century.

• French: Mélissa
• German: Melissa
• Italian: Melissa
• Portuguese: Melissa
• Russian: Мелисса