Associations to the word «Pinguicula»

Wiktionary

PINGUICULA, noun. (botany) Any of the genus Pinguicula of butterworts.
PINGUICULA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Lentibulariaceae   — insectivorous plants, the butterworts.
PINGUICULA ALPINA, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Lentibulariaceae   — the alpine butterwort, a carnivorous plant of the Alps and Pyrenees mountains of Europe and the Himalayas of Asia.

Dictionary definition

PINGUICULA, noun. Butterworts: a large genus of almost stemless carnivorous bog plants; Europe and America to Antarctica.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats