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Definition of Nepenthes

1. Noun. Pitcher plants.

Definition of Nepenthes

1. n. Same as Nepenthe.

Definition of Nepenthes

1. Noun. A drug referred to in Homer's ''Odyssey'' as bringing relief from anxiety or grief; hence, any substance seen as bringing welcome forgetfulness or relief. ¹

2. Noun. A Southeast Asian plant of the genus Nepenthes. ¹

3. Noun. (plural of nepenthe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nepenthes

1. nepenthe [n] - See also: nepenthe

Medical Definition of Nepenthes

1. 1. Same as Nepenthe. 2. 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. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. See Nepenthe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nepenthes

Literary usage of Nepenthes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life in the Forests of the Far East, Or, Travels in Northern Borneo by Spenser St. John (1863)
"We sent our men on next morning to wait for us at the cave, while we stayed behind to collect specimens of the nepenthes Lowii and the nepenthes Villosa. ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... smaller and less highly colored pitchers, produced in greater profusion. 1471. Five distinct types of nepenthes. Beginning from the top they are : Л'. ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1849)
"THE watery secretions of certain plants belonging to the genera nepenthes, Cephalotus, and Sarracenia, have long attracted the attention of botanists ..."

4. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1900)
"The pitchers of nepenthes (fig. 96) are in the main similar to those of Sarra- cenia. ... MODIFIED LEAF ' PITCHER) OF nepenthes. (After Kerner. ..."

5. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Historical and Descriptive by William Jackson Bean, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1908)
"As the nepenthes M , , are suspended in baskets from the roof, ... Seen at its best, when the nepenthes are bearing their full crop of pitchers, ..."

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