n.any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects
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a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae 捕虫堇属
Many of the world's 675-plus carnivorousspecies set passive traps. A bun-size butterwortbristles with gluey hairs that ensnare insectsuntildigestive juices do their work.