Utricularia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Utricularia \U*tric`u*la"ri*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
     A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed
     leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See {Ascidium},
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Utricularia
       n : bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants;
           cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: {genus Utricularia}]