Crossword-Solution: NEPENTHES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nepenthes | n. | Same as Nepenthe. |
| Nepenthes | n. | 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. |
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| Forgetfulness potions | 1 answer |
| NORTH American carnivorous plant | 2 answers |
| pitcher plant | 5 answers |
| CARNIVOROUS plant | 10 answers |
| insectivorous plant | 11 answers |
| STOVEHOUSE plant | 16 answers |
| HOTHOUSE plant | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEEMCA
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eruption
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Sentences with NEPENTHES (5)
Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone, In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
The word in the native dialect of Hayti is said to have been tabaco, but to have meant not the plant (According to William Barclay, "Nepenthes, or the Virtue of Tobacco", Edinburgh, 1614, "the countrey which God hath honoured and blessed with this happie and holy herbe doth call it in their native language 'Petum'.") but the pipe in which it was smoked.
Plants which climb by the aid of spontaneously revolving and sensitive petioles—_Clematis_—_Tropæolum_—_Maurandia_, flower-peduncles moving spontaneously and sensitive to a touch—_Rhodochiton_—_Lophospermum_—internodes sensitive—_Solanum_, thickening of the clasped petioles—_Fumaria_—_Adlumia_—Plants which climb by the aid of their produced midribs—_Gloriosa_—_Flagellaria_—_Nepenthes_—Summary on leaf-climbers.
The wonderful Pitcher-plants, forming the genus Nepenthes of botanists, here reach their greatest development.
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Appears in: NY Sun.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2009).