drosera
noun
drosera is a noun meaning “Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-R-O-S-E-R-A, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of drosera is droseras.
What does drosera mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several carnivorous, flowering plants of the genus Drosera.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of drosera
- droseras plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is drosera?
Drosera appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Drosera in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Any of several plants:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | droséra |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does drosera come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).