NEPETA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nepeta mean? 

• NEPETA (noun)
  The noun NEPETA has 1 sense:

1. catmint

  Familiarity information: NEPETA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPETA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Catmint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Nepeta; Nepeta

Hypernyms ("Nepeta" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Nepeta"):

catmint; catnip; Nepeta cataria (hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats)

Holonyms ("Nepeta" is a member of...):

family Labiatae; family Lamiaceae; Labiatae; 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; thyme; sage; rosemary)