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NEPENTHES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Nepenthes mean?
• NEPENTHES (noun)
The noun NEPENTHES has 1 sense:
1. pitcher plants
Familiarity information: NEPENTHES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pitcher plants
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Nepenthes; Nepenthes
Hypernyms ("Nepenthes" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Nepenthes"):
tropical pitcher plant (any of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs of the genus Nepenthes)
Holonyms ("Nepenthes" is a member of...):
family Nepenthaceae; Nepenthaceae (coextensive with the genus Nepenthes)
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