Category:Nepenthes

Ne*pen"thes, n. Etym: [nl., fr. Gr. Nepenthe.]

1. Same as nepenthe. Milton.

2. (bot.)

Defn: 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.