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pinguicula

noun

pinguicula is a noun meaning “Any of the genus Pinguicula of butterworts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-N-G-U-I-C-U-L-A, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pinguicula is pinguiculas.

What does pinguicula mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the genus Pinguicula of butterworts.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of pinguicula

  • pinguiculas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pinguicula?

Pinguicula appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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).

Where does pinguicula come from?

From the genus name translingual Pinguicula.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).