Nepenthes
Nepenthes , noun
[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}. See Nepenthe.]
1.
Same as Nepenthe. — Milton
2.
(Botany) 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.