| 单词 | carnivorous plant |
| 释义 | carnivorous plant (once / 200328 pages) n WORD FAMILY carnivorous plant: carnivorous plants USAGE EXAMPLESIn between, delicate yet deadly, thousands of sundews — tiny, carnivorous plants — sat patiently, holding red tentacles to the sun. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) And numerous carnivorous plants lure insects with sweet odours, only to devour them. Economist(Oct 06, 2016) It plays on the behavior of female flies of the genus Desmometopa, which eat the juices secreted by bees trapped in carnivorous plants. Science Magazine(Oct 06, 2016) n plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals Hypo|Hyper pitcher plant any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales daily dew, sundew, sundew plantany of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution Dionaea muscipula, Venus's flytrap, Venus's flytrapscarnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects Aldrovanda vesiculosa, waterwheel plantfloating 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 Drosophyllum lusitanicumperennial 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 roridulaeither of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs bladderwortany 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 butterwortany 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 genlisearootless 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 Sarracenia purpurea, common pitcher plant, huntsman's cup, huntsman's cupsperennial bog herb having dark red flowers and decumbent broadly winged pitchers forming a rosette; of northeastern North America and naturalized in Europe especially Ireland Sarracenia minor, hooded pitcher plantyellow-flowered pitcher plant of southeastern United States having trumpet-shaped leaves with the orifice covered with an arched hood Sarracenia flava, huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, trumpets, yellow pitcher plant, yellow trumpetpitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids California pitcher plant, Darlingtonia californicamarsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below sun pitcherany of several herbs of Guiana highlands having racemes of nodding white or pink flowers; trap and digest insects in pitcher-shaped leaves with spoon-shaped caps tropical pitcher plantany of several tropical carnivorous shrubs or woody herbs of the genus Nepenthes herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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