English > genus Nepeta: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | catmint. |
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Synonym | Nepeta |
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Member of | Labiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint family | A large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint |
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Members | catmint, catnip, Nepeta cataria | hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike |
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Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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Spanish | género nepeta, genus nepeta, nepeta |
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Catalan | genus nepeta, nepeta |
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