NEPENTHES
\nɪpˈɛnθiz], \nɪpˈɛnθiz], \n_ɪ_p_ˈɛ_n_θ_i_z]\
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A remedy much extolled by the ancients against sadness and melancholy. The women of Thebes, according to Diodorus Siceliotes, alone possessed the secret of its composition; and, according to Homer, Helen introduced it from Egypt. Some suppose it to have been opium.
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Bangue-n. Opiatum, Pilulae oplatae.
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