Definitions for Nepenthes

Nepenthes ne·pen·thes

Spelling: [ni-pen-theez]
IPA: /nɪˈpɛn θiz/

Nepenthes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in Nepenthes (eeehnnpst).

Definitions for Nepenthes

noun

  1. nepenthe.
  2. any of various tropical Asian and Australian pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes, having leaves usually in the form of cylindrical tubes.
  3. a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
  4. anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness, especially of sorrow or trouble.

Origin of Nepenthes

From New Latin; See origin at nepenthe

Examples for Nepenthes

Others are surprising without qualification, like nepenthes, which dangle a water jug at the tip of every leaf.

But, in nepenthes, there is also a distinct secretion which digests 345 the bodies of the drowning insects.

The leaf of nepenthes (Fig. 175) combines three structures and uses.

One of the broad sort, nepenthes rajah, will hold two quarts of water in its pitcher.

Dr. Hooker shows that the pitcher of nepenthes is due to a modification of a gland placed at the extremity of the midrib.

Theodore Zwinger, Sprengel, and others have supposed that the nepenthes of Homer was opium.

The wonderful Pitcher-plants, forming the genus nepenthes of botanists, here reach their greatest development.

Among the botanical productions nepenthes destillatoria, the famous pitcher-plant of the East, deserves mention.

He also found quantities of a pitcher plant, nepenthes (which lives mainly on insects caught in its pitchers).

Another, nepenthes Edwardsiania, has a narrow pitcher twenty inches long; while the plant itself grows to a length of twenty feet.

Word Value for Nepenthes
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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