carnivorous plant
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1. plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pitcher plant, |
| definition | : | any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | daily dew, sundew, sundew plant, |
| definition | : | any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aldrovanda vesiculosa, waterwheel plant, |
| definition | : | 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 fleas (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | drosophyllum lusitanicum, |
| definition | : | perennial of dry habitats whose leaves have glandular hairs that secrete adhesive and digestive fluid for capture and digestion of insects; Portugal, southern Spain and Morocco (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | roridula, |
| definition | : | either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bladderwort, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | butterwort, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | genlisea, |
| definition | : | 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; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs (noun.plant) |
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