butterwort

«butterwort» in Mova's school dictionary: A small plant with a flat rosette of sticky, pale green… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a butterwort, butterworts)

meaning for a pupil

A small plant with a flat rosette of sticky, pale green leaves and purple, violet or yellow flowers; it catches and eats small insects. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on plants and adaptations, butterwort is a carnivorous plant like the sundew and Venus flytrap. It grows in bogs and wet rocks, where the soil has few nutrients, so it gets food from insects. The leaves feel greasy like butter.

examples

• The butterwort caught a tiny fly on its sticky leaf. tree →
• Butterworts grow in wet, boggy places. tree →
• The butterwort has pretty violet flowers. tree →
• We saw butterwort on our trip to the Scottish hills. tree →
• Some people keep butterworts to catch fungus gnats. tree →

note

Countable. «Wort» is an old word for plant (as in St John's wort). Not related to butter except the greasy feel.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «butterwort» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.