Nepenthes

·noun ·same·as Nepenthe.

II. Nepenthes ·noun 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.