catmint

[ kat-mint ]

/ ˈkætˌmɪnt /

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noun Chiefly British.

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Origin of catmint

1225–75; Middle English cattesminte equivalent to cattes, genitive of cat + minte mint¹

Words nearby catmint

catkin, catlike, Catlin, catling, cat litter, catmint, catnap, catnapper, catnip, Cato, Catoctin Mountain Park

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How to use catmint in a sentence

I shall have to chew a lot of catmint and roll in it before I feel like myself again.
Daisy|Miranda Eliot Swan
Catmint will cause those of the most gentle and mild dispositions to become fierce and quarrelsome.
Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics|Richard Folkard
I had licked the kidney, tasted the fish, chewed a little catmint and was quite hilarious over it, as it always went to my head.
Daisy|Miranda Eliot Swan
It was many days before I visited that catmint bed again, for it rained very hard.
Daisy|Miranda Eliot Swan

After this I had to bear jeers and scoffs; but I would not give up my principles nor yet my catmint bed.
Daisy|Miranda Eliot Swan

British Dictionary definitions for catmint

catmint

/ (ˈkætˌmɪnt) /

noun

a Eurasian plant, Nepeta cataria, having spikes of purple-spotted white flowers and scented leaves of which cats are fond: family Lamiaeae (labiates)Also called: catnip

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