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Definition of Genus Utricularia
1. Noun. Bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants; cosmopolitan in distribution.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Bladderwort Family, Family Lentibulariaceae, Lentibulariaceae
Member holonyms: Bladderwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Utricularia
Literary usage of Genus Utricularia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Leaf-roots are, however, unknown outside the genus Utricularia, but they do not
always differ very markedly from the leaves of ..."
2. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nikolaus Triibner (1859)
"Observations on the North American Species of the genus Utricularia, by Captain
John Le Conte . . . . . . .72 14. Notice of New Localities of simple ..."
3. Trübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of by Nicolas Trübner, Benjamin Moran, Edward Edwards (1859)
"Observations on the North American Species of the genus Utricularia, by Captain
John Le Conte . . . . . . .72 14. Notice of New Localities of simple ..."
4. The Intellectual Observer (1868)
"The genus Utricularia, or Bladderworts, comprises aquatic plants found in the
stagnant water of ditches, marshes, etc. The leaves are submerged, ..."
5. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1896)
"I [During the summer of 1874 he was at work on the genus Utricularia, and he
wrote (July i6th) to Sir JD Hooker giving some account of the progress of his ..."
6. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1912)
"of the genus Utricularia, living in water, have little bladders which trap small
aquatic animals. The bladders Shave each a valve-like door through which ..."
7. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New Yorkby New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1824)
"... Observations on the North American species of the genus Utricularia, -
Observations on the North American species of the genus Gratiola, Observations on ..."
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