Crossword clues for catmint
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catnip \Cat"nip`\, Catmint \Cat"mint`\, n. (Bot.) A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta ( Nepeta Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.
Wiktionary
n. The plant (taxlink Nepeta cataria species noshow=1), or other members of the genus; catnip.
WordNet
n. hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats [syn: catnip, Nepeta cataria]
Wikipedia
Catmint usually refers to:
- the genus Anisomeles
- the garden plant Nepeta × faassenii
It may also refer to
- Anisomeles indica
- Anisomeles malabarica, Malabar catmint
- the plant genus Nepeta
- Nepeta cataria, catnip
- Nepeta nepetella, lesser catmint
Usage examples of "catmint".
Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline race.
I don't know why myself, but a lot of women fancy the Westfolk men the way a cat fancies catmint, and the Westfolk men have absolutely no honour where women are concerned.
Beneath them were borders of mixed traditional cottage garden plants--peonies, hollyhocks, delphiniums, forget-me-nots, which seeded themselves and ran half-wild, aquileas, which did the same thing, producing their pretty pink and white flowers, and catmint, which was invariably flattened by next door's fat ginger tom-cat whom she hadn't the heart to evict from his favourite patch of the scented plant.
Closely allied to the Catmint is the Ground Ivy (Nepeta glechoma, Benth.
Miss Bardswell, in The Herb Garden, writes of Catmint: 'Before the use of tea from China, our English peasantry were in the habit of brewing Catmint Tea, which they said was quite as pleasant and a good deal more wholesome.
Normal delivery would be alexanders, mustard seed, poppy seed, small quantities of long pepper, and Greek herbs (rosemary, thyme, cicely, catmint, wild savory).