An aquatic plant of north temperate regions, with small air-filled bladders which keep the plant afloat and trap tiny animals that provide additional nutrients.
狸藻
Genus Utricularia, family Lentibulariaceae
Example sentencesExamples
A large, yellow-flowered bladderwort sends stems several inches above the surface of 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.
Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, horned bladderwort and water milfoil growing in the water.
The bladderwort's lavender flowers adorn a stalk that may rise six feet above its tank.
Yellow dock root and an herb appropriately named bladderwort also reduce the chances of getting calcium stones, although science hasn't discovered exactly why.
Definition of bladderwort in US English:
bladderwort
noun
An aquatic plant of north temperate regions, with small air-filled bladders which keep the plant afloat and trap tiny animals that provide additional nutrients.
狸藻
Genus Utricularia, family Lentibulariaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Yellow dock root and an herb appropriately named bladderwort also reduce the chances of getting calcium stones, although science hasn't discovered exactly why.
A large, yellow-flowered bladderwort sends stems several inches above the surface of the water.
The bladderwort's lavender flowers adorn a stalk that may rise six feet above its tank.
Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, horned bladderwort and water milfoil 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.