Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of dicotyledonous apetalous plants, with numerous ovules in the ovary-cells, diæcious flowers, and fleshy albumen, consisting of the single genus Nepenthes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family coextensive with the genus Nepenthes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coextensive with the genus Nepenthes
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Here, too, is the domain of the wonderful pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae), which are only represented elsewhere by solitary species in Ceylon, Madagascar, the Seychelles, Celebes, and the Moluccas.
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Here, too, is the domain of the wonderful pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae), which are only represented elsewhere by solitary species in Ceylon, Madagascar, the Seychelles,
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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