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Definition of Nepenthaceae
1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Nepenthes.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sarraceniales, Sarraceniales
Member holonyms: Genus Nepenthes, Nepenthes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepenthaceae
Literary usage of Nepenthaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder (1908)
"Nepenthaceae (pp. 676-680). With reference to the structure of the axis (p.
679) we may note that, according to Heinricher, the vessels in Nepenthes ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"... 199:0115-613 My '16 Nepenthaceae Biochemical studies of the pitcher liquor of
nepenthes. JS Hepburn, tables Amer Philos Soc Proc 57:112-29 '18 Nerves ..."
3. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1886)
"Here, too, is the domain of the wonderful pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae), which
are only represented elsewhere by solitary species in Ceylon, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and Nepenthaceae only extend with a few outliers into the African sub-region.
Screw pines have a closer connexion. Compositae arc deficient. ..."