bladderwort

1. 1.

   any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals

   Broadercarnivorous plant

   Part ofUtricularia

Other forms of bladderwort

plural

bladderworts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bladderwort

What does bladderwort mean?

bladderwort means "any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals".

How many syllables are in bladderwort?

bladderwort has 3 syllables: blad-der-wort. The stress falls on "blad".

Is bladderwort a common word?

bladderwort is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.