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Definition: monkey-cups
Nepenthes
\Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See
Nepenthe.]
1. Same as
Nepenthe. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants found in tropical areas
of India, Malaya, Australia, 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.
[1913 Webster]
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