Crossword clues for pinguicula
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinguicula \Pin*guic"u*la\, n. [NL., fr. L. pinguiculus somewhat fat, fattish.] (Bot.) See Butterwort.
Butterwort \But"ter*wort`\, n. (Bot.) A genus of low herbs ( Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Pinguicula'' of butterworts.
Wikipedia
Pinguicula, commonly known as the butterworts, is a genus of carnivorous plants that use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environment. Of the roughly 80 currently known species, 12 are native to Europe, 9 to North America, and some in northern Asia. The largest number of species is in South and Central America.
Usage examples of "pinguicula".
But we have seen in a previous part of this work that there is a class of plants which digest and afterwards absorb animal matter, namely, all the Droseraceae, Pinguicula, and, as discovered by Dr.
Hooker, and were seen by me in the margins of the leaves of Pinguicula.
In the case of Pinguicula, as soon as an insect has been pushed for some little distance towards the midrib, immediate reexpansion would be beneficial, as the margins could not capture fresh prey until they were unfolded.
Pinguicula and Utricularia, belonging to the same family, have been adapted for these two different functions.
We shall see in the next chapter that the secretion from the glandular hairs of Pinguicula certainly dissolves animal matter.
Darwin, Francis, on the effect of an induced galvanic current on Drosera, 37 , on the digestion of grains of chlorophyll, 126 , on Utricularia, 442 Delpino, on Aldrovanda, 321 , on Utricularia, 395 Dentine, its digestion by Drosera, 106 Digestion of various substances by Dionaea, 301 by Drosera, 85 by Drosophyllum, 339 by Pinguicula, 381 , origin of power of, 361 Digitaline, action on Drosera, 203 Dionaea muscipula, small size of roots, 286 , structure of leaves, 287 , sensitiveness of filaments, 289 , absorption by, 295 , secretion by, 295 , digestion by, 301 , effects on, of chloroform, 304 , manner of capturing insects, 305 , transmission of motor impulse, 313 , reexpansion of lobes, 318 Direction of inflected tentacles of Drosera, 243 Dohrn, Dr.
I may add that early in August my son found leaves of this same Erica and the fruits of a Carex on the leaves of a Pinguicula in Switzerland, probably Pinguicula alpina.
Pinguicula vulgaris--Structure of leaves--Number of insects and other objects caught--Movement of the margins of the leaves--Uses of this movement--Secretion, digestion, and absorption--Action of the secretion on various animal and vegetable substances--The effects of substances not containing soluble nitrogenous matter on the glands--Pinguicula grandiflora--Pinguicula lusitanica, catches insects--Movement of the leaves, secretion and digestion.