catnip
Meaning of catnip
noun
a plant of the mint family, with downy leaves, purple-spotted white flowers, and a pungent smell attractive to cats.
late 18th century (originally US): from cat1 + nip, variant of dialect nep, nept, from medieval Latin nepta, from Latin nepeta ‘catmint’.
Information about catnip
- It is a name.
- The plural form of catnip is: catnips.
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Hyphenation of catnip
cat-nip
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- catnip is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
catnip synonyms
Meaning catmint:
Translation of catnip
- French: cataire
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