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GENUS NEPETA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Catmint
Synonyms:
genus Nepeta; Nepeta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Nepeta" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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)
