"butterwort" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: butterworts [plural]
Etymology: butter + wort: perhaps from the ability of the leaves to coagulate milk, or from their peculiar sliminess. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|butter|wort}} butter + wort Head templates: {{en-noun}} butterwort (plural butterworts)
  1. Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula. Categories (lifeform): Carnivorous plants, Lamiales order plants Translations (plant of the genus Pinguicula): yökönlehti (Finnish), grassette [feminine] (French), Fettkraut [neuter] (German), bodán meascáin [masculine] (Irish), leith uisce [feminine] (Irish), liath uisce [feminine] (Irish), 虫取菫 (mushitosurime) (Japanese), tłustosz [masculine] (Polish), foaie-grasă [feminine] (Romanian), îngrășătoare [feminine] (Romanian), жиря́нка (žirjánka) [feminine] (Russian), tätört [common-gender] (Swedish), pinguikul (Volapük)

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