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Carnivorous Botany and Venomous Vexations
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Across
  • 1. Affinity for moisture aiding slippery capture interior
  • 3. Moniker apt for a vine that reigns with trap and toxin
  • 4. Adjective for toxic trait aiding capture and subjugation silently
  • 9. Ecological act Victreebel performs with chlorophyll and cunning
  • 10. Cryptic nod to Pokémon’s gaze — watchful, striking from shadows
  • 12. Signature appendage attack in master predators and Pokémon alike
  • 14. Plant growing on others but not parasitically, unlike hungry vines
Down
  • 2. Botanical neck linking leaf to stem, flexibility’s bastion
  • 5. Pigment driving verdant power, from sun to sugars within
  • 6. Disguise often employed by Victreebel to deceive unwary targets
  • 7. Process green leaves hijack, but Victreebel's traps foil herbivore meals
  • 8. Digestive cavity disguised in leaf’s maw, ensnaring hapless prey
  • 11. Botanical split between photosynthetic and carnivorous functions
  • 13. Sweet lure analogous to the substance Victreebel secretes
  • 15. Toothed margin on foliage, a defensive or grasping design
  • 16. Directional growth response, as when leaves seek sun or shade
  • 17. Tissue term borrowed here for connective leaf base support
  • 18. Microscopic gateways regulating gas exchange in green surfaces

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