Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Nepenthes \Ne*pen"thes\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See {Nepenthe}.]
   1. Same as {Nepenthe}. --Milton.

   2. (Bot.) 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}.

Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar,
   pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf.
   {Beaker}.]
   1. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a
      spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar
      with a large ear or handle.

   2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the
      leaves of certain plants.

   {American pitcher plants}, the species of Sarracenia. See
      {Sarracenia}.

   {Australian pitcher plant}, the {Cephalotus follicularis}, a
      low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical
      leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed
      into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged
      and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a
      cockleshell.

   {California pitcher plant}, the {Darlingtonia California}.
      See {Darlingtonia}.

   {Pitcher plant}, any plant with the whole or a part of the
      leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs,
      especially the species of {Nepenthes}. See {Nepenthes}.

Source : WordNet®

Nepenthes
     n : pitcher plants [syn: {genus Nepenthes}]