Nep
Pronunciation
- IPA: /nɛp/
Origin
Shortened from nepte.
Full definition of nep
Noun
nep
(plural neps)- Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.