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Neossine
(Ne*os"sine) n. [Gr. neossia` a bird's nest.] The substance constituting the edible bird's
nest.
Neossology
(Ne`os*sol"o*gy) n. [Gr. a young bird + -logy.] (Zoöl.) The study of young birds.
Neoteric
(Ne`o*ter"ic Ne`o*ter"ic*al) , a. [L. neotericus, Gr. fr. compar. of young, new.] Recent in
origin; modern; new. "Our neoteric verbs." Fitzed. Hall.
Some being ancient, others neoterical.
Bacon. Neoteric
(Ne`o*ter"ic), n. One of modern times; a modern.
Neoterically
(Neo`ter"ic*al*ly) adv. Recently; newly.
Neoterism
(Ne*ot"er*ism) n. [Gr. innovation] An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.
Neoterist
(Ne*ot"er*ist), n. One ho introduces new word or phrases. Fitzed Hall.
Neoterize
(Ne*ot"er*ize) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Neoterized; p. pr. & vb. n. Neoterized.] To innovate; to
coin or introduce new words.
Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize.
fized. Hall. Neotropical
(Ne`o*trop"ic*al) a. [Neo- + tropical.] (Geog. & Zoöl.) Belonging to, or designating, a region
of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.
Neozoic
(Ne`o*zo"ic) a. [Neo- + Gr. life.] (Geol.) More recent than the Paleozoic, — that is, including
the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
Nep
(Nep) n. [Abbrev. fr. Nepeta.] (Bot.) Catnip.
Nepa
(||Ne"pa) n. [L. nepa scorpion.] (Zoöl.) A genus of aquatic hemipterous insects. The species
feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; — called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
Nepaulese
(Nep`au*lese") a. Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. — n. sing.
& pl. A native or natives of Nepaul.
Nepenthe
(Ne*pen"the) n. [Fr. Gr. removing all sorrow; hence, an epithet of an Egyptian drug which
lulled sorrow for the day; not + sorrow, grief.] 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.
Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court.
Pope.
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe.
Poe. Nepenthes
(Ne*pen"thes) n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Nepenthe.]
1. Same as Nepenthe. Milton.
2. (Bot.) 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.
Nepeta
(||Nep"e*ta) n. [L.] (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
