any American pitcher plant of the genus Sarracenia, having single nodding flowers and leaves modified as pitchers that trap and digest insects: family Sarraceniaceae
Word origin
C18: New Latin, named after D. Sarrazin, 17th-century botanist of Quebec
sarracenia in American English
(ˌsærəˈsiniə; ˌsærəˈsinjə)
US
noun
any of a genus (Sarracenia) of perennial New World pitcher plants
Word origin
ModL, after M. Sarrazin, Fr-Cdn physician who sent a specimen to botanists in France (c. 1700)