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CALIFORNIA PITCHER PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does California pitcher plant mean?
• CALIFORNIA PITCHER PLANT (noun)
The noun CALIFORNIA PITCHER PLANT has 1 sense:
1. marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below
Familiarity information: CALIFORNIA PITCHER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CALIFORNIA PITCHER PLANT (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
California pitcher plant; Darlingtonia californica
Hypernyms ("California pitcher plant" is a kind of...):
pitcher plant (any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales)
Holonyms ("California pitcher plant" is a member of...):
Darlingtonia; genus Darlingtonia (one species: California pitcher plant)
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