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Definition of Bladderwort family
1. Noun. Carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea.
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Group relationships: Order Polemoniales, Polemoniales
Member holonyms: Genus Utricularia, Utricularia, Genus Pinguicula, Pinguicula, Genus Genlisea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bladderwort Family
Literary usage of Bladderwort family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"bladderwort family. Aquatic plants, or terrestrial on moist ground, with the
leaves basal and tufted, or borne on floating branching stems, or reduced to ..."
2. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"(bladderwort family.) Aquatic or marsh herbs, with entire or dissected leaves,
and irregular flowers. — Calyx 2-lipped. ..."
3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... bladderwort family. Aquatic or marsh herbs, with the ovary and pod 1-celled
and containing a free central placenta, with irregular bilabiate flowers ..."
4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"(bladderwort family.) Small herbs (growing in water or wet places), with a 2-lipped
calyx, and a 2-lipped personate corolla, 2 stamens with ..."
5. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... bladderwort family. Aquatic or marsh herbs, with the ovary and pod 1-celled
and containing a free central placenta, with irregular bilabiate flowers ..."
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