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Nepenthe :: Nepenthe (n.) 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..

Nepenthes :: Nepenthes (n.) Same as Nepenthe.

Nepenthes :: Nepenthes (n.) 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 :: Nepeta (n.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy..

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) An old English silver coin, worth nine pence..

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents..

Ninepences :: Ninepences (pl. ) of Ninepenc.