Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hairy aromatic perennial herb (Nepeta cataria) in the mint family, native to Eurasia and containing an aromatic oil to which cats are strongly attracted.
- noun Any of various other mostly aromatic plants of the genus Nepeta, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and clusters of blue, lavender, or white flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
catmint .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the about 250 species of
flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, familyLamiaceae , certain of which are said to havemedicinal qualities. - noun Nepeta cataria and Nepeta grandiflora (and perhaps other species), which are well-known for causing an apparently harmless
pheromone -basedintoxication among certaincats .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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August 24, 2009 at 3:28 pm i wanf sumfting wif kiwees’s incluudid in et :3 i wuv catnipz *snifz catnip* aaaahhhh my bewuved catnip.
go on - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I guess catnip is kitty ganja. (or at least for some).
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Then his wife, Aunt Jessica, blew in with a decoction she called catnip tea.
You Should Worry Says John Henry Hugh McHugh
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The cat, exhausted from his "catnip" - induced shipboard acrobatics, melted into a furry puddle across Maati's knees.
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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The cat, exhausted from his "catnip" - induced shipboard acrobatics, melted into a furry puddle across Maati's knees.
Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001
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The catnip was a little more potent than Bob expected.
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The catnip was a little more potent than Bob expected.
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The catnip was a little more potent than Bob expected.
construktshen wirker - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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The catnip was a little more potent than Bob expected.
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That goes for all the officials who thought that using my name as catnip was just playing the Washington game as usual.
Fair Game Valerie Plame Wilson 2007
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