Meaning of NEPENTHES
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[n] pitcher plants |
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NEPENTHES is a 9 letter word that starts with N. |
| | Synonyms: | | genus Nepenthes |
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| | See Also: | | dicot genus, family Nepenthaceae, magnoliopsid genus, Nepenthaceae, tropical pitcher plant | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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