Wiktionary
n. any of several unrelated plants modified to capture and digest animals, especially insects, which supply nitrogen that may otherwise be unavailable in their habitat
WordNet
n. plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals
Wikipedia
True carnivory is thought to have evolved independently nine times in five different orders of flowering plants, and is represented by more than a dozen genera. This classification includes at least 583 species that attract, trap and kill prey, absorbing the resulting available nutrients. Additionally, over 300 protocarnivorous plant species in several genera show some but not all of these characteristics.
Usage examples of "carnivorous plant".
It occurred to Acorna that the contrary former administrator might have ignored them simply because she disliked all of them except that Acorna had been very specific about the carnivorous plant and the terrible injuries to RK.
Even the carnivorous plant life seemed to sense that it was not dinner time, and furled leaves, closed flowers, withdrew tendrils.
This place is a wall-to-wall tourist trap, a many-bladed carnivorous plant that digests easy credit and spits out the drained husks of foreigners.
While the two who had saved him from the carnivorous plant had done effective combat with the inimical growth, this was an altogether more formidable creature.
But of course she had been in one of the plants-had spent most of the last two and a half centuries within what was basically a carnivorous plant.
But of course she had been in one of the plantshad spent most of the last two and a half centuries within what was basically a carnivorous plant.
This place is wall to wall tourist trap, a many-bladed carnivorous plant that digests easy credit and spits out the drained husks of foreigners.