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Webster 1913 Edition
Nepenthes
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
.