Nepenthes

Ne`pen´thes

n.	1.	Same as Nepenthe.
	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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Nepenthes - pitcher plants                       genus Nepenthes dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination family Nepenthaceae, Nepenthaceae - coextensive with the genus Nepenthes tropical pitcher plant - any of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs of the genus Nepenthes