'Nepenthes' definitions:
Definition of 'Nepenthes'
From: WordNet
noun
Pitcher plants [syn: Nepenthes, genus Nepenthes]
Definition of 'Nepenthes'
From: GCIDE
- Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Nepenthe.]
- 1. Same as Nepenthe. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]