sarracenia

British

/ ˌsærəˈsiːnɪə /

noun

any American pitcher plant of the genus Sarracenia, having single nodding flowers and leaves modified as pitchers that trap and digest insects: family Sarraceniaceae

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Etymology

Origin of sarracenia

C18: New Latin, named after D. Sarrazin, 17th-century botanist of Quebec

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He could track the long line of treacherous honey-glands by which the sarracenia entices flies into the festering manure-wells of its sticky pitchers.

From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant

A large hunting spider, creeping among the grass and weeds, discovered the handsome cluster of the sarracenia.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

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