Definitions for pitcher-plant

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pitcher-plant pitcher plant

Pitcher-Plant is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1371 anagrams from letters in pitcher-plant (-acehilnpprtt).

Definitions for pitcher-plant

noun

1. any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
2. the common pitcher plant, S. purpurea, having red or green leaves and a large, nodding, globular dull-red flower.
3. any of various insectivorous Old World plants of the genus Nepenthes, having leathery leaves each ending in a tendril that bears a lidded, pitcherlike receptacle.

Origin of pitcher-plant

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for pitcher-plant

Sedges occur frequently, and the pitcher plant is very characteristic.

In some of the forests of the tropics a large description of pitcher plant is found.

Kloon squirted a stream of tobacco at a pitcher plant and filled the cup.

On one of the islands there is a wonderful plant called the pitcher plant.

The pitcher plant is another native of Earth, and several varieties of it are found on Zenia and at least two other planets.

The pitcher plant undoubtedly derives its principal nourishment from the insects it eats.

He also found quantities of a pitcher plant, Nepenthes (which lives mainly on insects caught in its pitchers).