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- English Word Nep Definition Catnip.
- English Word Nepa Definition A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
- English Word Nepaulese Definition Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan.
- English Word Nepaulese Definition A native or natives of Nepaul.
- English Word Nepenthe Definition A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
- English Word Nepenthes Definition Same as Nepenthe.
- English Word Nepenthes Definition A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.
- English Word Nepeta Definition A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
- English Word Nephalism Definition Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.
- English Word Nephalist Definition One who advocates or practices nephalism.
- English Word Nepheline Definition Alt. of Nephelite
- English Word Nephelite Definition A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.
- English Word Nephelodometer Definition An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
- English Word Nephelometer Definition An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
- English Word Nephew Definition A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
- English Word Nephew Definition A cousin.
- English Word Nephew Definition The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
- English Word Nephilim Definition Giants.
- English Word Nephoscope Definition An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
- English Word Nephralgia Definition Alt. of Nephralgy