资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pinguicula \Pin*guic"u*la\, n. [NL., fr. L. pinguiculus somewhat
fat, fattish.] (Bot.)
See {Butterwort}.
Butterwort \But"ter*wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A genus of low herbs ({Pinguicula}) having simple leaves
which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid
fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin
infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The
species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
资料来源 : WordNet®
Pinguicula
n : butterworts: a large genus of almost stemless carnivorous
bog plants; Europe and America to Antarctica [syn: {genus
Pinguicula}]