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/bˈʌtəwˌɔːt/
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NOUN
- 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
How To Use butterwort In A Sentence
- It's called a butterwort, and it always grows in boggy places; I wouldn't advise you to go after one again without asking father first. Milly and Olly
- The electrical network in Butterworth belongs to the municipality and Eskom is investing this money on risk.
- At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
- Jez Butterworth's new play (only his fourth) at the Almeida is a spooky tale of mid-life crisis and adultery in the suburbs, where the trees whisper strange messages, nightmares are rife and people think their neighbours are ghouls at the garden barbecues. Undefined
- The Butterwort family, an order of plants so named from the lenticular shape of the air-bladders on the branches of utricularia, one of the genera. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
- Emma, who presently works in corporate finance, was awarded the IoT medal and Butterworth prize for the highest overall marks.
- Skylarks sang over the wetlands, carnivorous butterworts were in violet flower and cotton grass fluffed up the land.
- They had a head start in that their assistant manager Ian Butterworth used to play alongside Prior at Norwich City.
- Its flowers much resemble the small wild violet of the hedgerows, in size and colour more especially; the flower-stalks are, however, sometimes branched, carrying four or five flowers; and if I may be allowed to make another comparison in order to convey an idea of its form, I would mention _Pinguicula vulgaris_, the common butterwort. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
- The order to which the butterwort and the bladderworts belong also afforded valuable results. Life of Charles Darwin
