Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various deciduous shrubs or small trees of the genus Staphylea, native to north temperate regions and having opposite compound leaves and terminal panicles of white flowers and bladderlike fruits.
- n. The fruit of such a plant.
Wiktionary
- n. any of several species of large shrubs or small trees, of the genus Staphylea, in the family Staphyleaceae
Etymologies
- bladder + nut (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On the rocky slopes the wild ginger shows its red-brown, long-eared urns, the white baneberry its short white plumes, the branchlets of the bladdernut are breaking into white clusters and columbine soon will "sprinkle on the rocks a scarlet rain" as it did in”
“The panicled dogwood and the red-osier dogwood (no, not the flowering dogwood) as yet show no signs of foliage, but the fine white lines in the bark of the bladdernut, which have been so attractive all winter, are now enhanced by the soft myrtle green of the tender young leaves.”
“Large, triangular membranaceous pods hang thickly from the white-lined branches of the bladdernut.”
“The big three-valved balloons of the bladdernut can sail either in the air, on the water, or over the frozen snow.”
“Most visitors to their glorious, ever-changing gardens would never notice that they include such hard-to-find specimens as a Finnish hybrid rhododendron and a bladdernut shrub.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bladdernut’.
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Trees!
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
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Funny baby names
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Tweets
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reesetee Truly. Oct 1, 2008
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chained_bear Wow. Oct 1, 2008