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Definition of Butterwort
1. Noun. Any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects.
Definition of Butterwort
1. n. A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
Definition of Butterwort
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus ''Pinguicula''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Butterwort
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Literary usage of Butterwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"The very same changes as are brought about in milk by the addition of the rennet
from a calf's stomach can be induced by means of butterwort leaves. ..."
2. Colin Clout's Calendar: The Record of a Summer April by Grant Allen (1883)
"SUNDEW AND butterwort. SHOWERY August weather, with gleams of sunshine interspersed,
is just what the little blue butterwort best loves : and coming out ..."
3. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"The Alpine butterwort (P. alpina) is a rare Scotch plant. Its leaves closely
resemble those of the common butterwort, but its flower is cream colour, ..."
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