catmint : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: catmint	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for catmint
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
catmint 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 Synonym(s): catmint, catnip, Nepeta cataria
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Catnip \Cat"nip`\, Catmint \Cat"mint`\, n. (Bot.) A well-know plant of the genus {Nepeta} ({N. 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.