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Pinguicula   Listen
noun
Pinguicula  n.  (Bot.) See Butterwort.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pinguicula" Quotes from Famous Books



... that you will think me a great bore, but I cannot resist telling you that I have just found out that the leaves of Pinguicula possess a beautifully adapted power of movement. Last night I put on a row of little flies near one edge of two YOUNGISH leaves; and after 14 hours these edges are beautifully folded over so as to clasp ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin



Words linked to "Pinguicula" :   bladderwort family, Lentibulariaceae, genus Pinguicula



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