| 单词 | butterwort |
| 释义 | butterwort (once / 214897 pages) n WORD FAMILY butterwort: butterworts USAGE EXAMPLESHe could watch the butterwort curving round the edges of its wan green foliage upon the captured limbs of fly or aphis. Allen, Grant, Charles Darwin(2010) The butterwort is but a 'prentice hand in the art of murder, and its intended victims often manage to get away from it. Iles, George, Little Masterpieces of Science:—The...(2010) The order to which the butterwort and the bladderworts belong also afforded valuable results. Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), Life of Charles Darwin(2010) n 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 Hyper carnivorous plant plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals |
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