GENUS UTRICULARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Utricularia mean? 

• GENUS UTRICULARIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS UTRICULARIA has 1 sense:

1. bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants; cosmopolitan in distribution

  Familiarity information: GENUS UTRICULARIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS UTRICULARIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants; cosmopolitan in distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Utricularia; Utricularia

Hypernyms ("genus Utricularia" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Utricularia"):

bladderwort (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)

Holonyms ("genus Utricularia" is a member of...):

bladderwort family; family Lentibulariaceae; Lentibulariaceae (carnivorous aquatic or bog plants: genera Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Genlisea)