Definitions for pitcher plant
pitcher plant

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1. pitcher plantnoun

   any of several insectivorous herbs of the order Sarraceniales

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1. pitcher plantnoun

   any of various insectivorous plants of the genera Sarracenia, Nepenthes, or Darlingtonia that have pitcher-like leaves with slippery sides that attract and trap insects

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1. Pitcher plant

   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 liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.

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1. pitcher plant

   A pitcher plant is a type of carnivorous plant that captures and digests insects and other small animals. The name "pitcher plant" refers to the plant's modified leaves that take on a pitcher or jug-like shape, which is used to trap its prey. These leaves often contain a liquid that helps break down the captured prey for the plant to absorb nutrients. They are found in a variety of locations around the world, with the highest diversity in Borneo and Sumatra.

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1. Pitcher plant

   Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It is widely assumed pitfall traps evolved by epiascidiation, with selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over evolutionary time. The pitcher trap evolved independently in three eudicot lineages and one monocot lineage, representing a case of convergent evolution. Some pitcher plant families are placed within clades consisting mostly of flypaper traps, indicating that some pitchers may have evolved from the common ancestors of today's flypaper traps by loss of mucilage. Foraging, flying or crawling insects such as flies are attracted to the cavity formed by the cupped leaf, often by visual lures such as anthocyanin pigments, and nectar bribes. The rim of the pitcher is slippery, when moistened by condensation or nectar, causing insects to fall into the trap. Pitcher plants may also contain waxy scales, protruding aldehyde crystals, cuticular folds, downward pointing hairs, or guard-cell-originating lunate cells on the inside of the pitcher to ensure that insects cannot climb out. The small bodies of liquid contained within the pitcher traps are called phytotelmata. They drown the insect, and the body of it is gradually dissolved. This may occur by bacterial action or by enzymes secreted by the plant itself. Furthermore, some pitcher plants contain mutualistic insect larvae, which feed on trapped prey, and whose excreta the plant absorbs. Whatever the mechanism of digestion, the prey items are converted into a solution of amino acids, peptides, phosphates, ammonium and urea, from which the plant obtains its mineral nutrition. Like all carnivorous plants, they grow in locations where the soil is too poor in minerals and/or too acidic for most plants to survive.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pitcher plant in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pitcher plant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pitcher plant
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pitcher_Plant
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_Plant
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5. ^ Wikidata
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