carnivorous plant

plant that traps and consumes animals or protozoans
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carnivorous plant

Summary

carnivorous plant is a plant life-form[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of plant_life_form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,099 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • carnivorous plant's instance of is recorded as plant life-form[3].
  • carnivorous plant is a type of plant[4].
  • carnivorous plant is a type of insectivore[5].
  • carnivorous plant is a type of predator[6].
  • carnivorous plant's Commons category is recorded as Carnivorous plants[7].
  • carnivorous plant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Carnivorous plants[8].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[14].
  • carnivorous plant's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[15].
  • carnivorous plant's partially coincident with is recorded as Protocarnivorous plant[16].
  • carnivorous plant's topic has template is recorded as Template:Carnivorous plants[17].
  • carnivorous plant's different from is recorded as insectivore[18].
  • carnivorous plant's has list is recorded as list of carnivorous plants[19].

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Definition and Type

carnivorous plant's instance of is recorded as plant life-form[3]. Recorded subclass of include plant[4], insectivore[5], and predator[6].

Why It Matters

carnivorous plant ranks in the top 10% of plant_life_form entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,099 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Different from insectivore
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 2250431
    Aliases
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14706, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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