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butterworts

butterworts is the plural of butterwort.

Meaning of butterwort

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)

Questions about butterworts

What is butterworts the plural of?
Butterworts is the plural of butterwort.

Words near butterworts in the dictionary

  1. butterwort
  2. Butterworth
  3. Butterworth filter
  4. Butterworth filters
  5. Butterworths
  6. butterworts
  7. buttery
  8. buttery bar
  9. buttery bars
  10. buttery hatch
  11. buttery hatches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: butterworts (page history and authors); butterwort (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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