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Definition of Butterworts
1. butterwort [n] - See also: butterwort
Literary usage of Butterworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"A third family of carnivorous plants is represented by the butterworts (Pinguicula)
and the bladderworts (Utricularia), which commonly inhabit swamps or ..."
2. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... worse than useless, word, under which he is betrayed into classing together
two orders naturally quite distinct, the butterworts and the Bladderworts. ..."
3. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"These are the sundews, the butterworts, and the bladderworts, several species of
each of which occur in Britain. These plants catch small flies and ..."
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