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Definition of Nepenthes

Nepenthes
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.
Nepenthes
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.
Nepenthe
Nepenthe Ne*pen"the, n. [Fr. Gr. ? removing all sorrow; hence, an epithet of an Egyptian drug which lulled sorrow for the day; ? not + ? sorrow, grief.] A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. --Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. --Poe.

Meaning of Nepenthes from wikipedia

- Nepenthes are currently recognised as valid. This number is increasing, with several new species being described each year. The genus name Nepenthes was...
- Nepenthe /nɪˈpɛnθi/ (Ancient Gr****: νηπενθές, nēpenthés) is a possibly fictional medicine for sorrow – a "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient...
- used as toy phallocrypts in New Guinea. Nepenthes mirabilis has by far the widest distribution of any Nepenthes species and is known from the following...
- in the wild with all other locally-occurring Nepenthes species. Joseph Dalton Hooker described Nepenthes rajah in 1859, naming it in honour of James Brooke...
- 2009. Nepenthes attenboroughii in the press. CPUK Forum, August 19, 2009. Giant Nepenthes Trip: Mt. Victoria Philippines. Leilani Nepenthes - Photo...
- taxonomy. It is therefore the type species of the genus. Nepenthes distillatoria was the second Nepenthes species to be described in print, after N. madagascariensis...
- endemic) is an endangered tropical pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is the only Nepenthes species native to India. It is thought to attract prey by...
- Abstract (in ****anese) Oikawa, T. 1992. Nepenthes ampullaria Jack. In: Muyū kusa – Nepenthes (無憂草 – Nepenthes). [The Grief Vanishing.] Parco Co., ****an...
- Panay, Samar, and Sibuyan. Nepenthes alata in this broad sense (sensu lato) is one of the easiest and most po****r Nepenthes in cultivation. In 2013, N...
- Nepenthes dyak was later mentioned several more times in the botanical literature, but is now considered conspecific with N. bicalcarta. Nepenthes bicalcarata...