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noun

Nepenthes n.

Same as Nepenthe.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Nepenthes'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... conceits, and bitter invective. The spirit of criticism is so strong that even the partisans of the weed satirise the habits of the smoker.' King James's 'Counter Blaste to Tobacco,' first issued in 1604, Braithwaite's 'The Smoaking Age,' 1617, and Barclay's 'Nepenthes, or, the Vertues of Tobacco,' 1614, have all been reprinted of late years. Bragge's 'Bibliotheca Nicotiana' was ...

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Words linked to "Nepenthes" : family Nepenthaceae, Nepenthaceae, genus Nepenthes, dicot genus, tropical pitcher plant, magnoliopsid genus