butterwort

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English

Pinguicula vulgaris, a species of butterwort.

Etymology

From butter +‎ wort: perhaps from the ability of the leaves to coagulate milk, or from their peculiar sliminess.

Noun

butterwort (plural butterworts)

  1. Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:
      As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]

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