Meaning of nepenth | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“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.”

“Homer of Moly and Nepenthe singes: / Moly, the gods most soveraigne hearbe divine. / Nepenth Hellen's drink⟳, which gladnes brings,— / Hart's greife repells, and doth yᵉ witts refine.”

“The nepenth of nostalgia is replaced by an amphetamine of anticipation.”

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