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nepeta
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nepeta \Nep"e*ta\, n. [L.] (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any plant of the genus ''Nepeta'' of flowering plants, including catnip and ground ivy.
Wikipedia
Nepeta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae also known as catmints. The genus name is reportedly in reference to Nepete, an ancient Etruscan city. There are about 250 species.
The genus is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has also naturalized in North America.
Some members of this group are known as catnip or catmint because of their effect on house cats – the nepetalactone contained in some Nepeta species binds to the olfactory receptors of cats, typically resulting in temporary euphoria.
Nepeta is a genus of plant.
Nepeta may also refer to:
- Nepeta Leijon, a fictional character from the webcomic Homestuck
Usage examples of "nepeta".
One corner boasted a clump of velvety green catnip, bordered by a lower growing variety of Nepeta with grayish green foliage.
Little Yard, which turned out to be a quadrangle the length of a football field, with ancient trees on a lush green lawn bordered by boxwood hedges and big red-orange poppies blazing amid beds of lavenderish blue nepeta and crisscrossed by worn walkways that looked as if they had been there forever.
Avon has one moon, Nepeta, 3,000km in diameter, with an orbital altitude of 437,000km.
Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline race.
The calyx tube has fifteen ribs, a distinguishing feature of the genus Nepeta, to which this species belongs.
The odor released from the crushed leaves of Nepeta cataria, as this small mint plant is known, seems to affect only members of the cat family, lions and tigers not excepted.