Crossword-Solution: BLADDERWORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bladderwort | 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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| Aquatic plant whose leaves trap small insects | 1 answer |
| AQUATIC insectivorous plant | 2 answers |
| Insect-eating plant | 5 answers |
| insectivorous plant | 11 answers |
| Aquatic Plant | 18 answers |
| Water plant | 33 answers |
| herbaceous plant | 74 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with BLADDERWORT (5)
The prettiest botanical specimen my trip yielded was a little plant that bears the ugly name of horned bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta), and which I found growing in marshy places along the shores of Moxie Lake.
And who shall say that the sundew or the bladderwort is not a higher organism than the amoeba? Animated plants and vegetating animals parallel each other.
The sundew actually digests its prey with the help of a gastric juice similar to what is found in the stomach of animals; but the bladderwort and pitcher-plants can only absorb in the form of soup the products of their victims' decay.
Some green buds and leaves float on water.--Loosely floating on slow streams of the northern states, in water not the purest, may often be found the common bladderwort, _Utricularia vulgaris_, producing in summer a few yellow flowers on each stem, rising from six to twelve inches above the water.
Again, the Bladderwort (Utricularia), a plant with pretty yellow flowers, growing in pools and slow streams, is so called because it bears a great number of bladders or utricles, each of which is a real miniature eel-trap, having an orifice guarded by a flap opening inwards which allows small water animals to enter, but prevents them from coming out again.
Quotes with BLADDERWORT (1)
That night, I fell into a deep, travel-weary sleep, lulled by the familiar sound of the waterfall beyond the window. I dreamed of the beck fairies, a blur of lavender and rose-pink and buttercup-yellow light, flitting across the glittering stream, beckoning me to follow them toward the woodland cottage. There, the little girl with flame-red hair picked daisies in the garden, threading them together to make a garland for her hair. She picked a posy of wildflowers- harebell, bi…