piranha plant

Carnivorous pipe dweller

A piranha plant is a carnivorous plant enemy in Nintendo's Mario video game franchise, appearing as a fanged Venus flytrap–like creature that emerges from pipes to attack.

The image has become iconic in gaming culture: I kept dying to the same piranha plant in World 1-2.

Related
  • Super MarioMustachioed platform protagonist
  • flytrapDevice ensnaring flying pests
  • pipeHollow conveyance channel
  • warpBend from true form
  • teethEnamel-covered chewing structures

bite · chomp · Nintendo · fireball · fire flower · green pipe · spotted · red · green · stem · leaf · enemy · carnivorous · snap · sharp teeth · underground · Petey · boss

Opposites
aggression/threat level

piranha plantStarman

Extraterrestrial being or visitor

power-up · Yoshi · coin · warp pipe

mobility/behavior

piranha plantKoopa Troopa

Shelled video game enemy

Bullet Bill · Boo

botanical nature

piranha planthealing herb

Tree of Life · Pikmin

Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G