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Definition of Tropical pitcher plant
1. Noun. Any of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs of the genus Nepenthes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropical Pitcher Plant
Literary usage of Tropical pitcher plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Evolution of Plants by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1899)
"—A, leaf of the common pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purpurea); B, pitcher of a
tropical pitcher-plant (Nepenthes) borne upon the end of a tendril, ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1906)
"He describes the tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes, of the same family as the
American pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea; and compares the gorgeous Medinilla ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1906)
"He describes the tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes, of the same family as the
American pitcher plant ..."
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