catmint

American  

[kat-mint] / ˈkætˌmɪnt /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. catnip.

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catmint British  

/ ˈkætˌmɪnt /

noun

1. Also called: catnip.  a Eurasian plant, Nepeta cataria, having spikes of purple-spotted white flowers and scented leaves of which cats are fond: family Lamiaeae (labiates)

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Etymology

Origin of catmint

1225–75; Middle English cattesminte equivalent to cattes, genitive of cat ( def. ) + minte mint ¹

Example Sentences

By midday, they moved on to blue star amsonia, Little Trudy catmint, sea holly and pasqueflower, which bloomed early in the season and provided food to pollinators building their nests.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2022

After this I had to bear jeers and scoffs; but I would not give up my principles nor yet my catmint bed.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Swan, Miranda Eliot

Jack worked with a will, and before the man Mrs. Thornton had hired to remove and destroy the catmint bed had arrived, it was nearly all transplanted or cut off to dry.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Swan, Miranda Eliot

It was many days before I visited that catmint bed again, for it rained very hard.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Swan, Miranda Eliot

The word, as Comrade Maude was just about to observe," said Smith, "is a corruption of catmint.

From The Prince and Betty by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)