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NEPENTHES

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Pitcher plants

Synonyms:

genus Nepenthes; Nepenthes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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