NEPETA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Nepeta mean? • NEPETA (noun)
The noun NEPETA has 1 sense:
1. catmint
Familiarity information: NEPETA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEPETA (noun)
Meaning:
Catmint
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nepeta; Nepeta
Hypernyms ("Nepeta" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Nepeta"):
catmint; catnip; Nepeta cataria (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)
Holonyms ("Nepeta" is a member of...):
family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; Lamiaceae; mint family (the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary)
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