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butterwort

butterwort noun: any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.

butterwort: any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula
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Noun

butterwort (plural butterworts)

  1. Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
    • As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20
  2. common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

butterwort meaning in Tamil

butterwort in Tamil

எண்ணெய்ப் பொறிச் செடி

Forms of butterwort

pluralbutterworts

Origin of butterwort

From butter + wort: perhaps from the ability of the leaves to coagulate milk, or from their peculiar sliminess.

Questions about butterwort

What does butterwort mean?
Butterwort means any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
What is butterwort in Tamil?
Butterwort in Tamil is எண்ணெய்ப் பொறிச் செடி. See Butterwort meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is butterwort?
Butterwort is a noun.
What is the plural of butterwort?
The plural of butterwort is butterworts.

Words near butterwort in the dictionary

  1. Butterwicks
  2. butterwoman
  3. butterwomen
  4. butterworm
  5. butterworms
  6. butterwort
  7. Butterworth
  8. Butterworth filter
  9. Butterworth filters
  10. Butterworths
  11. butterworts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterwort (page history and authors); butterwort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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