nepenthes

2 definitions found

nepenthes - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Nepenthe.]
     1. Same as Nepenthe. --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

nepenthes - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Nepenthes
      n 1: pitcher plants [syn: Nepenthes, genus Nepenthes]