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Nepenthes   Listen
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Nepenthes  n.  
1.
Same as Nepenthe.
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.






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... for the olive branch of Peace? Kind Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release, Nepenthes, that alone her mystic hand ...
— Flint and Feather • E. Pauline Johnson



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