butterwort

English

Pinguicula vulgaris, a species of butterwort.

Etymology

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

Noun

butterwort (plural butterworts)

1. Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
   • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:

     As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]

Translations

plant of the genus Pinguicula

• Finnish: yökönlehti (fi)
• French: grassette (fr) f
• German: Fettkraut n
• Irish: bodán meascáin m, leith uisce f, liath uisce f
• Japanese: 虫取菫 (mushitosurime)
• Polish: tłustosz m
• Romanian: foaie-grasă (ro) f, îngrășătoare (ro) f
• Russian: жиря́нка (ru) f (žirjánka)
• Swedish: tätört c
• Volapük: pinguikul