catnip

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

catnip
    n 1: 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}, {catnip}, {Nepeta cataria}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Catnip \Cat"nip`\, Catmint \Cat"mint`\, n. (Bot.)
   A well-know plant of the genus {Nepeta} ({Nepeta 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.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Common Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol
CATNIP

   <networking> (CATNIP, originally Common Architecture
   Technology for Next-generation Internet Protocol)

   A network architecture designed to provide a compressed form
   of the existing {network layer} {protocols} and to integrate
   {CLNP}, {IP}, and {IPX}.  It provides for any of the
   {transport layer} {protocols} in use, including {TP4}, {CLTP},
   {TCP}, {UDP}, {IPX}, and {SPX}, to run over any of the network
   layer protocol formats: CLNP, IP (version 4), IPX and CATNIP.

   CATNIP was originally proposed by Robert L. Ullmann of {Lotus
   Development Corporation} on 1993-12-22.  It was published as
   {RFC 1707} in October 1994 but it is not an {Internet}
   standard of any kind.

   (1996-03-23)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CATNIP
       Common ArchiTecture for Next generation Internet Protocol (IPNG,
RFC 1707)