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nepenthes |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr Gr ?. See {Nepenthe}.] 1. Same as {Nepenthe}. --Milton. 2. (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF pichier, OHG. pehhar pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf {Beaker}.] 1. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle. 2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. {American pitcher plants}, the species of Sarracenia. See {Sarracenia}. {Australian pitcher plant}, the {Cephalotus follicularis}, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. {California pitcher plant}, the {Darlingtonia California}. See {Darlingtonia}. {Pitcher plant}, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of {Nepenthes}. See {Nepenthes}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Nepenthes n : pitcher plants [syn: {Nepenthes}, {genus Nepenthes}]
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