butterwort
(ˈbʌtəwɜːt)
In 6 also -worts.
[f. butter n.1 + wort; cf. quot. 1597.]
A plant with yellowish-green fleshy leaves (Pinguicula vulgaris) common on boggy ground; also the English name of the genus Pinguicula.
| 1597 Gerard Herbal cclxiii. §4. 645 Called Pinguicula, of the fatnes or fulnes of the leafe, or of fatning; in Yorkshire..it is called Butterwoorts, Butter roote, and white roote. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xii. 124 Pinguicula or Butter⁓wort has a personate flower. 1848 C. A. Johns Week Lizard 289 Pinguicula lusitanica, Pale Butterwort. 1863 Kingsley Water-bab. v. 195 The little pink butterwort of Devon, and the great blue butterwort of Ireland. |