Definition of Sarracenia purpurea

1. Noun. Perennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland.

Exact synonyms: Common Pitcher Plant, Huntsman's Cup, Huntsman's Cups
Group relationships: Genus Sarracenia, Sarracenia
Generic synonyms: Pitcher Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarracenia Purpurea

Sargonid
Sargonids
Sark
Sarkese
Sarkozy
Sarkozyism
Sarlacc
Sarnoff
Saronic Gulf
Saronic Islands
Saroyan
Sarpanitu
Sarpedon
Sarracenia flava
Sarracenia minor
Sarracenia purpurea
Sarraceniaceae
Sarraceniales
Sarsi
Sarthe
Sartre
Sartrean
Sartreans
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sasak
Sasang typology
Sasanian
Sasanians
Sasanid
Sasanidae

Literary usage of Sarracenia purpurea

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 (1902)
"... may be taken Heliamphora nutans, a native of moorlands on the mountains of Roraima, on the borders of British Guiana, and sarracenia purpurea (see fig. ..."

2. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1864)
"ON sarracenia purpurea. [The following is the opinion of Dr. James Watson on the action of sarracenia purpurea. The cases occurred in the Edinburgh Royal ..."

3. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"... sarracenia purpurea ( mounted by an ample green auricle decorated with scarlet red veins, to which the species owes its name. These cups, presents from ..."

4. The Retrospect of Medicine by James Braithwaite, William Braithwaite (1863)
"Claiming, as I have a right to do, I will not say the honour, but the priority, of announcement to the profession of the sarracenia purpurea, as the great ..."

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