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pitcher plant — noun Date: 1819 a plant (especially family Sarraceniaceae, the pitcher plant family) with leaves modified into pitchers in which insects are trapped and digested by means of liquids secreted by the leaves … New Collegiate Dictionary
Pitcher plant — Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with selection… … Wikipedia
pitcher plant — n. any of various plants with slippery, pitcherlike leaves that contain a pool of enzymes that digest trapped insects; esp., any of a family (Sarraceniaceae, order Nepenthales) of dicotyledonous, New World plants that grow in swamps and bogs … English World dictionary
pitcher plant — 1. any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped. 2. the common pitcher plant, S. purpurea,… … Universalium
pitcher plant — pitch′er plant n. pln any of various insectivorous bog plants of the family Sarraceniaceae, with hooded, pitcher shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped • Etymology: 1810–20 … From formal English to slang
California pitcher plant — noun marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below • Syn: ↑Darlingtonia californica • Hypernyms: ↑pitcher plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Darlingtonia, ↑genus Darlingtonia * * * … Useful english dictionary
family Sarraceniaceae — noun insectivorous plants • Syn: ↑Sarraceniaceae, ↑pitcher plant family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑Sarraceniales, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… … Universalium
pitcher — 1. n. 1 a large usu. earthenware jug with a lip and a handle, for holding liquids. 2 a modified leaf in pitcher form. 3 (in pl.) broken pottery crushed and reused. Phrases and idioms: pitcher plant any of various plants, esp. of the family… … Useful english dictionary
Carnivorous plant — Insectivorous Plants redirects here. For the book by Charles Darwin, see Insectivorous Plants (book). Nepenthes mirabilis in flower, growing on a road cut in Palau Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not … Wikipedia
