English Dictionary

nepenth

IPA（発音記号）

/nɪˈpɛnθ/

名詞

別表記 異形 廃用 稀用

(obsolete, rare) Alternative form of nepenthes.

日本語の意味

ウツボカズラ（食虫植物）。「nepenth」は「nepenthes」の旧綴りで、ウツボカズラ属に属する熱帯性の食虫植物を指す。

The botanist carefully recorded the rare nepenth he found on the expedition, noting its distinctive pitcher shape.

植物学者は遠征で見つけた珍しいウツボカズラを慎重に記録し、その特徴的な捕虫嚢の形状を詳しく記した。

意味（1）

(obsolete, rare) Alternative form of nepenthes.

NEPENTHA′CEÆ, Nepenths, a natural order of Exogenous Plants inhabiting the damper and warmer parts of Asia, and having, in the place of leaves, large hollow bodies furnished with a lid, and containing water secreted from a peculiar glandular apparatus with which they are lined. […] [T]he adherent ovary of Birthworts, their highly developed calyx, axile placentation, and hermaphrodite flowers, are serious difficulties in the way of a close contact between them and Nepenths, unless the peculiar structure of the wood, the consideration of which I for the present abandon, should lead to the final establishment of the class of Homogens, in which case Nepenths and Birthworts will be brought into contact or at least a near neighbourhood.

nepenths （ plural ）