butterwort en · NOUN
Etymology
From butter + wort: perhaps from the ability of the leaves to coagulate milk, or from their peculiar sliminess.
Meanings
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Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]
1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:
- common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| butterworts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (14)
de Fettkraut (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ru жиря́нка (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · sv tätört (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ro foaie-grasă (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ro îngrășătoare (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ga bodán meascáin (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · fi yökönlehti (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ja 虫取菫 (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · cy tafod y gors (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · fr grassette (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ga leith uisce (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · vo pinguikul (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · pl tłustosz (plant of the genus Pinguicula) · ga liath uisce (plant of the genus Pinguicula)