Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of gamopetalous plants of the order Lentibularieæ, characterized by the spreading posterior corolla-lobe, the four- to five-parted calyx, and the terminal one-celled anthers.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
- noun [l. c] A small painless tumor of the conjunctiva, usually situated close to the edge of the cornea. Also called
interpalpebral blotch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
butterwort .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
genus Pinguicula ofbutterworts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun butterworts: a large genus of almost stemless carnivorous bog plants; Europe and America to Antarctica
Etymologies
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Examples
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We are in the flat woods again -- palmetto-clumps under the pine trees, pitcher-plants and orchis in the low spots, violets and pinguicula beside the ditches, vetches and lupines and pawpaw and the trailing mimosa in the sand.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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Among the plants noticed by the roadside was a species of pinguicula which was very common on damp clay-cuttings.
In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895
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I call it 'Minima' only, as the least of the five here named; without putting forward any claim for it to be the smallest pinguicula that ever was or will be.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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