Hypertext Webster Gateway: "catnip"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Catnip \Cat"nip`\, Catmint \Cat"mint`\, n. (Bot.)
A well-know plant of the genus {Nepeta} ({N. Cataria}),
somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used
in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar
fondness for it.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
catnip
n : 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
[syn: {catmint}, {Nepeta cataria}]
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