Found 2 items, similar to Nepenthes.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Nepenthes Nepenthes n : pitcher plants [syn: genus Nepenthes]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Nepenthes 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]