sarracenia
noun
sarracenia is a noun meaning “Any of various pitcher plants of genus Sarracenia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-R-R-A-C-E-N-I-A, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of sarracenia is sarracenias.
What does sarracenia mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various pitcher plants of genus Sarracenia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of sarracenia
- sarracenias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is sarracenia?
Sarracenia appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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 sarracenia come from?
Derived from the name of Michel Sarrazin (1659–1734), a French physician and naturalist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).