The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf. Beaker.]
A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
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(Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia.
Australian pitcher plant, the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell.
California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia.
Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.
Wiktionary
n. Any of various insectivorous plants of the genera (taxlink Sarracenia genus noshow=1), ''Nepenthes'', or (taxlink Darlingtonia genus noshow=1) that have pitcher-like leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects.
WordNet
n. any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales
Wikipedia
Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are created from modified leaves; however they are not simply folded into a tube, and the process is far more complicated.
Usage examples of "pitcher plant".
When it passed, the three eyestalks fixed on Jameson again, and the mouth centered among them opened like a pitcher plant.
And - most amazingly - even the seeds of the insectivorous pitcher plant - which traps its prey in pools of chemically laced water on leaves sporting a glissading escarpment of downward-pointing hairs and narcotic-laced nectar -even the tiny seeds of this plant trap prey by means of slime and poison, then digesting the surrounding mulch of decaying creatures as they germinate, forming into seedlings and plants.
Soon they were drinking scented water from a pitcher plant and eating bunlike masses from puffball plants.
But they're as far above a pitcher plant as a man is above a sea anemone, which is just as much an animal as a man is.
And then her mouth was there like wet velvet, like an orchid, and she was kissing him with all her vengeance, and her lips seemed so frail on his, but gathering suddenly in strength, and after a moments hesitation he kissed her back, almost desperate, the sweetness of the deadly pitcher plant and the bitterness of her venom seizing up the priest inside him.
It's not much different from a Venus flytrap or a pitcher plant, don't you see that?
Certainly both of them outclassed me, but when you get right down to it every member of the Group outclassed me with the exception of the nothing No-Name who now seemed on the verge of falling into a pitcher plant.
And then her mouth was there like wet velvet, like an orchid, and she was kissing him with all her vengeance, and her lips seemed so frail on his, but gathering suddenly in strength, and after a moment's hesitation he kissed her back, almost desperate, the sweetness of the deadly pitcher plant and the bitterness of her venom seizing up the priest inside him.
It was neither fungus nor pitcher plant, nor anything that he had ever encountered or heard of in his explorations.