1) Carnivorous plant
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• (n.) 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.
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any plant of the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae of the flowering plant order Lamiales). The bladderwort genus contains 220 widely ... [2 related articles]
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(Utricularia) These hardy and tender, aquatic and terrestrial perennials are commonly called Bladderworts. The aquatic kinds are found throughout the U.S., Nova Scotia, Europe, Asia and southern Canada. These plants produce finely divided, submerged leaves. They also produce small, bladder-like structures underneath the water, which are fitted with...
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Blad'der·wort` noun (Botany) 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 .
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The bladderwort (Utricularia vulgaris) is a group of genera of some 275 species of aquatic and terrestrial herbs of the family Lentibulariaceae, species of which are natives of Britain, the United States, etc. They grow in ditches and pools. They are named from having little bladders or vesicles, that fill with air at the time of flowering and rais...
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[
n] - 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
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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
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Any of a large group of carnivorous aquatic plants. They have leaves with bladders (hollow sacs) that trap small animals living in the water. (Genus
Utricularia, family Lentibulariaceae.)
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any of various plants of the genus Utricularia, including aquatic, terrestrial, and epiphytic forms throughout the world.
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