Good Books

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.

||Nep"e*ta (?), n. [L.] (Bot.)
A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground
ivy.

Neph"a*lism (?), n. [Gr. &?; soberness,
fr. &?; sober, &?; to drink no wine: cf. F.
néphalisme.] Total abstinence from spirituous
liquor.

Neph"a*list (?), n. [Cf. F.
néphaliste.] One who advocates or practices
nephalism.

{ Neph"e*line (?), Neph"e*lite (?) },
n. [gr. &?; cloud: cf. F.
néphéline. Cf. Nebula.] (Min.)
A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy hexagonal crystals;
also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster,
as the variety elæolite.


Pages:
1689 1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696 1697 1698 1699 1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707 1708 1709 1710 1711 1712 1713