Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia, inhabiting wetlands or aquatic habitats and having small urn-shaped bladders that trap and digest minute insects and crustaceans.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common name of members of the genus Utricularia, slender aquatic plants, the leaves of which are furnished with floating-bladders. See Utricularia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See ascidium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of many aquatic carnivorous plants, of the genus Utricularia, that have open bladders that trap minute insects and crustaceans.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals

Etymologies

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bladder +‎ wort

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Examples

  • Now, I believe the bladderwort is over there with the herbs.

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • I spooned out some bladderwort, crushing the green leaves with a mortar and pestle.

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • The other bit is to show off a picture of a bladderwort I picked up yesterday at the Black Jungle BBQ.

    Sarracenia 2009

  • The rare intermediate bladderwort had disappeared, and so had the splendid ten-spine sticklebacks.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • When we reached First Bog, we lay flat on the wooden bridge and searched the peaty water for the aquatic lesser bladderwort, another of the local insectivorous plants.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • When we reached First Bog, we lay flat on the wooden bridge and searched the peaty water for the aquatic lesser bladderwort, another of the local insectivorous plants.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The other bit is to show off a picture of a bladderwort I picked up yesterday at the Black Jungle BBQ.

    U-ren Ishii 2009

  • The rare intermediate bladderwort had disappeared, and so had the splendid ten-spine sticklebacks.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Floating aquatics such as white water lily (Nymphaea odorata) are common and a submerged complex of plants is dominated by bladderwort (Utricularia spp.).

    Everglades 2008

  • A bladderwort Utricularia has a hollow bag on the end of a stalk, with the entrance guarded by hairs.

    Sundaland heath forests 2008

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