1) Carnivorous plant 2) Floral emblem of Newfoundland 3) Insect-snarfing herb 4) Leafy insect-eater
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Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants that have evolved modified leaves known as a pitfall traps – a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with liquid. ==Types of pitcher plants== Pitcher plants can be found in the large Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae families, the monotypic Cephalotaceae and in some members o...
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any carnivorous plant with pitcher-shaped leaves. Old World pitcher plants are members of the family Nepenthaceae (order Caryophyllales). New World ... [4 related articles]
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(Nepenthes) These are interesting, frost-tender, insectivorous perennials that are mostly epiphytic (A plant that grows on trees or some other support without harming them and obtains nutrients and moisture from the air without rooting into the soil are epiphytes.). They are natives of the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, Malaya, Borneo, China a...
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The pitcher plant is the name of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Nepenthes and Heliamphora. They have tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
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[
n] - any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales
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noun any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales
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Any of various insectivorous plants, the leaves of which are shaped like a pitcher and filled with a fluid that traps and digests insects. (Genera especially
Nepenthes and
Sarracenia, family Sarraceniaceae.)
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