Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See {Nepenthe}.]
1. Same as {Nepenthe}. --Milton.
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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}.
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