Definition of Nepenthaceae

1. Noun. Coextensive with the genus Nepenthes.

Exact synonyms: Family Nepenthaceae
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sarraceniales, Sarraceniales
Member holonyms: Genus Nepenthes, Nepenthes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepenthaceae

Neosporin
Neotestudina rosati
Neotoma
Neotoma cinerea
Neotoma floridana
Neotoma fuscipes
Neotropic
Neozoic
Nepal
Nepal trumpet flower
Nepalese
Nepalese monetary unit
Nepalese rupee
Nepali
Nepaulese
Nepenthaceae (current term)
Nepeta cataria
Nepeta hederaceae
Nephelium
Nephelium lappaceum
Nephelium litchi
Nephelium longana
Nephelium mutabile
Nephilim
Nephite
Nephrolepis
Nephrolepis exaltata
Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis
Nephrolepis pectinata
Nephrops

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. ..."

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