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Nepenthes
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What's The Definition Of Nepenthes?
[n] pitcher plants
Synonyms | Synonyms for Nepenthes: genus Nepenthes Related Terms | Find terms related to Nepenthes: See Also | dicot genus | family Nepenthaceae | magnoliopsid genus | Nepenthaceae | tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
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