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sarracenia definition

☆ sar·ra·cenia (sar′ə sē′nē ə, -sēn′yə)

noun

any of a genus (Sarracenia) of perennial New World pitcher plants

Etymology: ModL, after M. Sarrazin, Fr-Cdn physician who sent a specimen to botanists in France (c. 1700)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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