Nepenthes
Pronunciation : Ne*pen"thes
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [NL., fr. Gr. Nepenthe.]
Definition : 1. Same as Nepenthe. Milton.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913