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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 nepenthes
 豬籠草

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ne·pen·thes n.
 1. Same as Nepenthe.
 2. Bot. A genus of climbing plants found in tropical areas of India, Malaya, Australia, 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Nepenthes
      n : pitcher plants [syn: genus Nepenthes]