Nepenthes
[ne'penθi:z]
Definition
(n.) Same as Nepenthe.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Miguel
Definition
n. (med.) a drug that relieves pain—also Nepen′the: a genus of plants having a cup or pitcher attached to the leaf often filled with a sweetish liquid the pitcher-plant.
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