Search Result for "california pitcher plant":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below;
[syn: California pitcher plant, Darlingtonia californica]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf. Beaker.] 1. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. [1913 Webster] American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia. Australian pitcher plant, the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

California pitcher plant n 1: marsh or bog herb having solitary pendulous yellow-green flowers and somewhat twisted pitchers with broad wings below [syn: California pitcher plant, Darlingtonia californica]