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catmint
[ kat-mint ]
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 calledcatnip
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Word History and Origins
Origin of catmint1
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Example Sentences
I shall have to chew a lot of catmint and roll in it before I feel like myself again.
Catmint will cause those of the most gentle and mild dispositions to become fierce and quarrelsome.
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.
It was many days before I visited that catmint bed again, for it rained very hard.
After this I had to bear jeers and scoffs; but I would not give up my principles nor yet my catmint bed.
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