nepenthes

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ne=pen=thes

CIDE DICTIONARY

nepenthes, n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Nepenthe.].

•  Same as Nepenthe.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nepenthes, n.
1 poet. a drug causing forgetfulness of grief.
2 any pitcher-plant of the genus Nepenthes.

Etymology

L f. Gk nepenthes (pharmakon drug), neut. of nepenthes f. ne- not + penthos grief