Usually means: Carnivorous plant traps, digests insects.
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  1. pitcher plant: Merriam-Webster
  2. pitcher plant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pitcher plant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pitcher plant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pitcher plant: Vocabulary.com
  6. pitcher-plant, pitcher plant: Wordnik
  7. pitcher plant: Wiktionary
  8. pitcher plant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pitcher plant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pitcher plant, pitcher plant: Dictionary.com
  11. Pitcher plant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. pitcher plant: Rhymezone
  13. pitcher plant: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pitcher plant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pitcher plant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pitcher-plant, pitcher plant: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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  1. pitcher plant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pitcher plant)

noun:  Any of various insectivorous plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora (in order Ericales); Nepenthes (in order Caryophyllales), or Cephalotus (in order Oxalidales) that have pitcher-like leaves or parts of leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects.

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