Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the catnip, Nepeta Cataria.

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Examples

  • Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline race; and, on the other hand, to quote an example whose authenticity I can answer for.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • Earwig, I have a spell that will lead us to the cats, but in order to cast it, I need a bagful of a certain herb-nepeta cataria.

    Brothers Majere Stein, Kevin, 1954- 1989

  • = Catnip =, or = cat mint = (_Nepeta cataria_, Linn.), a perennial herb of the natural order Labiatæ.

    Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

  • This, the _Nepeta cataria_, or _herbe aux chats_, is as much beloved by cats as _Valerian_, [345] and the common _Marum_, for which herbs they have a frenzied passion.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Méd. 1846, 509, it is stated that Dr. Guastamachia had used the N. cataria with great advantage in toothache, caused by cold or carious bone, mashing the leaves in the decayed tooth: this produces an abundant flow of saliva, and causes the pain to cease in a few moments.

    Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

  • Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline race; and, on the other hand, to quote an example whose authenticity I can answer for.

    Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • Thus you are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced by the _Nepeta cataria_, vulgarly called cat-mint, on the feline race; and, on the other hand, to quote an example whose authenticity I can answer for, Bridaux (one of my old comrades, at present established in the Rue Malpalu) possesses a dog that falls into convulsions as soon as you hold out a snuff-box to him.

    Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • DuPont is working on an insect repellent based on nepeta cataria

    Fast Company 2009

  • DuPont is working on an insect repellent based on nepeta cataria

    Fast Company 2009

  • DuPont is working on an insect repellent based on nepeta cataria

    Fast Company 2009

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