ALL meanings of butterwort
but·ter·wort
B b - noun butterwort a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae 3
- noun butterwort any of a genus (Pinguicula) of the bladderwort family of small, stemless plants with flat, sticky leaves on which insects are trapped 3
- noun butterwort any small, carnivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula, having leaves that secrete a viscid substance in which small insects are caught. 1
- noun butterwort Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula. 0