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Definition of Carnivorous plant
1. Noun. Plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals.
Specialized synonyms: Pitcher Plant, Daily Dew, Sundew, Sundew Plant, Dionaea Muscipula, Venus's Flytrap, Venus's Flytraps, Aldrovanda Vesiculosa, Waterwheel Plant, Drosophyllum Lusitanicum, Roridula, Bladderwort, Butterwort, Genlisea
Definition of Carnivorous plant
1. Noun. any of several unrelated plants modified to capture and digest animals, especially insects, which supply nitrogen that may otherwise be unavailable in their habitat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnivorous Plant
Literary usage of Carnivorous plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"... (carnivorous? plant). By THEO. B. COM- STOCK, of Ithaca, NY ABSTRACT. DURING the
recent session of the Kirtland School of Natural History in Cleveland, ..."
2. Laboratory and Field Manual of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1907)
"A. Examine any carnivorous plant which you can find growing spontaneously (various
species of Drosera and" Sarracenia are the kinds most widely ..."
3. Introduction to Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Otis William Caldwell (1914)
"The sundew, a carnivorous plant 54. carnivorous plants. There are many kinds of
plants ... The best type of carnivorous plant is the sundew (fig. 36). ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"A carnivorous plant. Last summer, while traveling through the Sierra Nevada
mountains, the writer came across a wonderful curiosity in the plant line, ..."
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