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Definition of: sarracenia
(sar′ə·sē′nē·ə) noun
Any of a genus plants, having trumpetlike or pitcher–shaped leaves by which insects are entrapped and then digested by the plants; a pitcherplant. [<NL, orig. Sarracena, after Dr. D. Sarrazin, 17th–18th c. physician of Quebec who sent a specimen to the botanist Tournefort in 1700]
—sar′ra·ce′ni·a′ceous (-sē′nē·ā′shəs) adjective
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