butterwort

/buht-er-wurt, -wawrt/US // ˈbʌt ərˌwɜrt, -ˌwɔrt //UK // (ˈbʌtəˌwɜːt) //

牛油果,蝴蝶草,牛油菌,黄牛

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any small, carnivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula, having leaves that secrete a viscid substance in which small insects are caught.

This is the Butterwort (Pinguicula), and it is not a bad name, for the leaves remind one of butter.
There are three British species of Butterwort (Pinguicula), similar in structure and habit, all growing in bogs and on wet rocks.
From no catalogue of quaint plants could the butterwort be omitted.
He could watch the butterwort curving round the edges of its wan green foliage upon the captured limbs of fly or aphis.
The order to which the butterwort and the bladderworts belong also afforded valuable results.