BLADDERWORT FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bladderwort family mean? 

• BLADDERWORT FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BLADDERWORT FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea

  Familiarity information: BLADDERWORT FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLADDERWORT FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bladderwort family; family Lentibulariaceae; Lentibulariaceae

Hypernyms ("bladderwort family" is a kind of...):

plant family (a family of plants)

Meronyms (members of "bladderwort family"):

genus Utricularia; Utricularia (bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants; cosmopolitan in distribution)

genus Pinguicula; Pinguicula (butterworts: a large genus of almost stemless carnivorous bog plants; Europe and America to Antarctica)

genus Genlisea (small genus of carnivorous plants of tropical African swamps)

Holonyms ("bladderwort family" is a member of...):

order Polemoniales; Polemoniales (Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales)