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Nepenthes

Noun

ne=pen=thes

WORDNET DICTIONARY

is a kind of dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus

is a member of family nepenthaceae, nepenthaceae

Nepenthes, n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Nepenthe.].

Same as Nepenthe. Milton. [1913 Webster]
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, n.
1 poet. a drug causing forgetfulness of grief.
2 any pitcher-plant of the genus Nepenthes.

Etymology

L f. Gk nepenthes (pharmakon drug), neut. of nepenthes f. ne- not + penthos grief