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Nepenthes   Listen
noun
Nepenthes  n.  
1.
Same as Nepenthe.
2.
(Bot.) A genus of climbing plants found in tropical areas of India, Malaya, Australia, 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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"Nepenthes" Quotes from Famous Books



... Which flames and dances in its crystal bounds With spirits of balm and fragrant syrups mixed. Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy like this, To life so friendly, or so ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)


Words linked to "Nepenthes" :   genus Nepenthes, tropical pitcher plant, Nepenthaceae, dicot genus, family Nepenthaceae, magnoliopsid genus


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