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butterwort

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *wréh₂ds✻ — “a root”
  2. inherited from *wrōts✻ — “a root”
  3. inherited from *wurti✻ — “a root; a spice”
  4. inherited from wyrt — “a plant; vegetable; herb, spice”
  5. inherited from wort
  6. compounded as butterwort — “butter + wort”

Definitions

  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[.]

  2. common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)

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