butterwort

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
    — As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]
  2. common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

词形变化

butterworts plural

词源

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