English > carnivorous plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals. |
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| Narrower | Drosophyllum lusitanicum | perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects |
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| Venus's flytrap, Venus's flytraps, Dionaea muscipula | carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects |
| bladderwort | Any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals |
| butterwort | Any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects |
| genlisea | rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle to form traps |
| pitcher plant | Any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales |
| roridula | Either of 2 species of the genus Roridula |
| sundew, sundew plant, daily dew | Any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects |
| waterwheel plant, Aldrovanda vesiculosa | floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water ... / water fleas |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
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| Spanish | planta carnívora |
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| Catalan | planta carnívora |
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