carnivorous plant

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   plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals

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Questions about carnivorous plant

What does carnivorous plant mean?

carnivorous plant means "plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals".

Is carnivorous plant a common word?

carnivorous plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.