common pitcher plant

common pitcher plant
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
Hypernyms: ↑pitcher plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Sarracenia, ↑genus Sarracenia

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  • 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 — noun any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales • Hypernyms: ↑carnivorous plant • Hyponyms: ↑common pitcher plant, ↑huntsman s cup, ↑huntsman s cups, ↑Sarracenia purpurea, ↑hooded pitcher plant …   Useful english dictionary

  • Northern pitcher plant — purpurinė saracėnija statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Saracėnijinių šeimos vaistinis augalas (Sarracenia purpurea), paplitęs Šiaurės Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Sarracenia purpurea angl. common pitcherplant; huntsman s cup; Northern pitcher …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • purple pitcher plant — purpurinė saracėnija statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Saracėnijinių šeimos vaistinis augalas (Sarracenia purpurea), paplitęs Šiaurės Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Sarracenia purpurea angl. common pitcherplant; huntsman s cup; Northern pitcher …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • 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

  • common pitcherplant — purpurinė saracėnija statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Saracėnijinių šeimos vaistinis augalas (Sarracenia purpurea), paplitęs Šiaurės Amerikoje. atitikmenys: lot. Sarracenia purpurea angl. common pitcherplant; huntsman s cup; Northern pitcher …   Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)

  • insectivorous plant — noun : a plant that captures and digests insects either passively (as the common pitcher plant or the sundew) or by the movement of certain organs (as the Venus s flytrap) compare droseraceae, lentibulariaceae, sarraceniaceae …   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

  • Protocarnivorous plant — A protocarnivorous plant (sometimes also paracarnivorous, subcarnivorous, or borderline carnivore), according to some definitions, traps and kills insects or other animals but lacks the ability to either directly digest or absorb nutrients from… …   Wikipedia

  • carnivorous plant — Any of about 400 diverse species of plants specially adapted for capturing insects and other tiny animals by ingenious pitfalls and traps and for digesting the nitrogen rich animal proteins to obtain nutrients. These adaptations are thought to… …   Universalium

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