HyperDic: nepeta

English > 1 sense of the word Nepeta:
NOUNplantNepeta, genus Nepetacatmint
English > Nepeta: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningcatmint.
Synonymgenus Nepeta
Member ofLabiatae, family Labiatae, Lamiaceae, family Lamiaceae, mint familyA 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
Memberscatmint, catnip, Nepeta catariahairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike
Broaderasterid dicot genusgenus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
Spanishgénero nepeta, genus nepeta, nepeta
Catalangenus nepeta, nepeta

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