Nepenthes
Nepenthes İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Nepenthes anlamları
- (noun) 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.
- (noun) Same as Nepenthe.
- (noun) Same as Nepenthe.
- (noun) 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.
Nepenthes tanım:
Kelime: ne·pen·the
Söyleniş: n&-'pen(t)-thE
İşlev: noun
Kökeni: Latin nepenthes, from Greek nEpenthes, neuter of nEpenthEs banishing pain and sorrow, from nE- not penthos grief, sorrow; akin to Greek pathos suffering -- more at NO, PATHOS
1 : a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness of pain or sorrow
2 : something capable of causing oblivion of grief or suffering
- ne·pen·the·an
/-thE-&n/ adjective