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(1):

(n.) Same as Nepenthe.

(2):

(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Nepenthes'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​n/nepenthes.html. 1828.
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