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Definition: Catmint |
CatmintNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Also catnep: a strong-scented herb (Nepeta cataria) that has whorls of small dull-white purple-dotted flowers in a terminal spike. . . is much relished by cats; called also catmint. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Also catnep:a strong-scented herb(Nepeta cataria)that has whorls of small dull-white purple-dotted flowers in a terminal spike, is much relished by cats. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CatmintSynonym: catnip (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Catmint |
| English words defined with "catmint": genus Nepeta ♦ Nepeta. (references) |
| "Catmint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Catmint" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
catmint | 74 |
catmint low walker | 3 |
catmint flower | 3 |
catmint plant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "catmint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | коча билка (catnip, meadow sweet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | katteurt (catnep, catnip, catnip US), kattemynte (catnep, catnip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kattekruid (catnep, catnip, catnip US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aitokissanminttu (catnep, catnip, catnip US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cataire (catnep, catnip), népète des chats (catnip US), menthe de chat (catnep, catnip), herbe aux chats (catnep, catnip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Katzenminze (catnep, catnip), Katzenmelisse (catnep, catnip), echte Katzenminze (catnip US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλήχωμα το γαλεόφιλον (catnep, catnip), νεπέτα η γαλεόφιλη (catnip US), νεπέτα η γατόφιλη (catnip US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyöngymenta (catnip), illatos macskamenta (catnip, cat-nip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erba gattaia (catnep, catnip, catnip US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lus ny gayt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atmintcay котовник кошачий. (various references) mačja trava (catnip). (various references) menta de gato (catnip US), albahaca (basil, catnip US, sweet basil). (various references) kattmynta (catnep, catnip, catnip US). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Nepeta cataria, Nepeta cataria L.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "catmint": catmints. (additional references) | |
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"Catmint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cavmont. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: intact, mantic, mattin, titman. | |
-2 letters: actin, amnic, antic, attic, manic, matin, tacit, taint, tinct, titan. | |
-3 letters: amin, anti, cain, cant, main, matt, mica, mina, mint, mitt, tact, tain, tint. | |
-4 letters: act, aim, ain, ait, ami, ani, ant, att, cam, can, cat, mac, man, mat, nam, nim, nit, tam, tan, tat, tic, tin, tit. | |
-5 letters: ai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: catmints. | |
+2 letters: emittance, manicotti. | |
+3 letters: admittance, antiemetic, combatting, emittances, immittance, remittance, tomcatting, tympanitic. | |
+4 letters: actinometer, actinometry, admittances, anastomotic, antiemetics, antimitotic, cementation, coadmitting, commutating, commutation, computation, concomitant, containment, contaminant, contaminate, curtailment, immittances, interatomic, martensitic, masticating, mastication, matriculant, mentalistic, metacentric, metafiction, metagenetic, metrication, micturating, miscitation, outmatching, remittances, romanticist, semanticist, syntagmatic, tumefaction. | |
+5 letters: actinometers, actinometric, actinomycete, anastigmatic, anthelmintic, antidogmatic, antimagnetic, antimitotics, antiromantic, avitaminotic, cementations, chastisement, commentating, committeeman, commutations, computations, concomitants, containments, contaminants, contaminated, contaminates, contaminator, curtailments, exanthematic, mastications, matriculants, mercantilist, metacentrics, metafictions, metrications, miscitations, mutagenicity, noctambulist, nonautomatic, noncommittal, pneumaticity, postromantic, protactinium, romanticists, semanticists, thumbtacking, tumefactions, unsystematic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 74 6D 69 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - -- .. -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110100 01101101 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a t m i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0074 006D 0069 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678679758086 |
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