huntsman's cup
- noun
- /ˈhʌnts.mənz kʌp/
- US
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planta jarro del cazador
- The huntsman's cup thrives in peat bogs, where its striking dark red flowers stand out amongst the mosses.
Examples
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In Ireland, the huntsman's cup has become naturalized and is often seen in damp meadows.
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Botanists carefully observed the huntsman's cup to study the insects trapped inside its pitcher leaves.
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Look at that huntsman's cup!
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The huntsman's cup is beautiful.
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In Ireland, the huntsman's cup has become naturalized and is often seen in damp meadows.
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The huntsman's cup thrives in peat bogs, where its striking dark red flowers stand out amongst the mosses.
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Botanists carefully observed the huntsman's cup to study the insects trapped inside its pitcher leaves.
Synonyms
A plant that lives many years in bogs with red flowers and cup-shaped leaves that catch insects
A plant that eats insects with tube-shaped purple leaves that trap them
A plant that lives in wet ground and has tube-shaped leaves that trap insects
Surface Forms
Morphology
huntsman's + cup
The element 'cup' transparently suggests a bowl- or pitcher-shaped form, and 'huntsman's' is readily read as the possessive of 'huntsman', so learners can infer a cup-shaped thing associated with a huntsman. However, the expression names a particular plant species and that specialized botanical sense (a perennial bog plant with pitcher-like leaves) is not fully derivable from the constituents, making the overall meaning only partially predictable.
Etymology
Huntsman's cup gets its name from its cup-shaped leaves: the word cup points to the small bowl form, and huntsman suggests a hunter because the leaves 'trap' insects like a hunter catches prey. That's why the name fits this bog plant that 'traps' insects.
