| nepenthes | 1. Same as Nepenthe. 2. <botany> 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. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. See Nepenthe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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