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UK
/blˈædəwˌɔːt/
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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
How To Use bladderwort In A Sentence
- Bladderworts, pitcher plants, and sundews all indulge their carnivorous tastes.
- Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, bulltongue arrowhead, horned bladderwort, water milfoil, and water-shield growing in the water.
- Closing my eyes I can see, across the boggy run, a six-foot alligator erupting from the speckled combination of dark water and bright bladderwort.
- Numerous species of arrowheads and bladderworts occur.
- A large, yellow-flowered bladderwort sends stems several inches above the surface of the water.
- The order to which the butterwort and the bladderworts belong also afforded valuable results. Life of Charles Darwin
- Floating aquatics such as white water lily (Nymphaea odorata) are common and a submerged complex of plants is dominated by bladderwort (Utricularia spp.). Everglades
- A large, yellow-flowered bladderwort sends stems several inches above the surface of the water, and the yellow asphodel is spectacular in late June and early July.
- Among them are a bladderwort, a butterwort, two kinds of pitcher plant, and three kinds of sundew.
- I spooned out some bladderwort, crushing the green leaves with a mortar and pestle. The Multiplying Menace
