[f. CAT + NEP.] The common name in U.S. of CATMINT.

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1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 189. (Medicinal plants in New England) Catmint or catnip.

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1807.  W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 144. The healing qualities of hoarhound, catnip and pennyroyal.

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1852.  Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., I. iv. 66. A decoction of catnip.

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1861.  Mrs. Stowe, Pearl Orr’s Isl. (ed. 3), 19. A … tea-pot, which fumed strongly of catnip-tea.

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