genus Nepenthes

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genus Nepenthes - pitcher plants Nepenthesdicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationfamily Nepenthaceae, Nepenthaceae - coextensive with the genus Nepenthestropical pitcher plant - any of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs of the genus Nepenthes