Nepenthes

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Nepenthes
       n : pitcher plants [syn: {genus Nepenthes}]