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Definition of Pinguicula
1. Noun. Butterworts: a large genus of almost stemless carnivorous bog plants; Europe and America to Antarctica.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Bladderwort Family, Family Lentibulariaceae, Lentibulariaceae
Member holonyms: Butterwort
Definition of Pinguicula
1. n. See Butterwort.
Medical Definition of Pinguicula
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinguicula
Literary usage of Pinguicula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin (1908)
"Pinguicula vulgaris—Structure of leaves—Number of insects and other objects
caught—Movement of the margins of the leaves—Uses of this movement —Secretion, ..."
2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"Pinguicula is so called from the greasy appearance presented by the upper ...
The secretion which flows when the leaves of Pinguicula are not excited by the ..."
3. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln ( Goodale (1890)
"The secretion which flows when the leaves of Pinguicula arc not excited by ...
In about three hours after an insect alights upon a leaf of Pinguicula the ..."
4. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"In the daughter-cells thus formed the nuclei divide in just the same way as in
the mother-cell. Crystalloids in the Cell-nuclei of Pinguicula and ..."
5. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"Pinguicula VULGARIS.—This plant grows in moist places, generally on mountains.
It bears on an average eight, rather thick, oblong, light green leaves, ..."
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