See Also: EXOINE, French law(law)
Nepenthes(medicine)
nepenthes(dictionary)
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EXOINE, French law (law) and Nepenthes (medicine)


EXOINE, French law (law)


EXOINE, French law. An act or instrument in Writing, which contains the reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a person accused, who has been reasons why a party in a civil suit, or a person accused, who has been summoned, agreeably to the requisitions of a decree, does not appear. Poth. summoned, agreeably to the requisitions of a decree, does not appear. Poth. Proced. Crim. s. 3, Art. 3. Vide Essoin. Proced. Crim. s. 3, Art. 3. Vide Essoin.

Nepenthes (medicine)


nepenthes


1. Same as Nepenthe.

2. <botany> 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.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr. See Nepenthe.

Source: Websters Dictionary