CARNIVOROUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carnivorous plant mean? 

• CARNIVOROUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun CARNIVOROUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals

  Familiarity information: CARNIVOROUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARNIVOROUS PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("carnivorous plant" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carnivorous plant"):

pitcher plant (any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales)

daily dew; sundew; sundew plant (any 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 flytraps (carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects)

Aldrovanda vesiculosa; waterwheel plant (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)

Drosophyllum lusitanicum (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)

roridula (either of 2 species of the genus Roridula; South African viscid perennial low-growing woody shrubs)

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; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs)