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Definition of Bladderworts
1. bladderwort [n] - See also: bladderwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bladderworts
Literary usage of Bladderworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"... closed in each case by a valve, which permits objects to penetrate into Fig.
17—bladderworts. In the foreground Utricularia ..."
2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"In the sundews sensitive contractile viscid hairs cover the upper side, of the
leaves and entrap the insect upon its approach: in the bladderworts the ..."
3. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"In the tropics, however, a number of bladderworts grow as perching plants ...
For the most part, true bladderworts have no roots, but extend in the water ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"The bladderworts of to-day, it is true, capture their insects or ... Beyond the
stage of the bladderworts, however, the inner life of the plant-world ..."
5. Chapters in Modern Botany by Patrick Geddes (1893)
"This is still represented in the terrestrial bladderworts, ... In the aquatic
bladderworts the terminal floral axis of the seedling is suppressed, ..."
6. The Sagacity & Morality of Plants: A Sketch of the Life & Conduct of the by John Ellor Taylor (1884)
"Charles Kingsley's observant eye did not fail to notice the peculiarity of the
West Indian kinds of bladderworts: "The type of the rushes and grasses was ..."
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