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Nepenthes (gcide) | Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Nepenthe.]
1. Same as Nepenthe. --Milton.
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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 (wn) | Nepenthes
n 1: pitcher plants [syn: Nepenthes, genus Nepenthes] |
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Nepenthes distillatoria (gcide) | Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Nepenthe.]
1. Same as Nepenthe. --Milton.
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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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genus nepenthes (wn) | genus Nepenthes
n 1: pitcher plants [syn: Nepenthes, genus Nepenthes] |
nepenthes (wn) | Nepenthes
n 1: pitcher plants [syn: Nepenthes, genus Nepenthes] |
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