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# bladderwort

noun (a bladderwort, bladderworts)

«bladderwort» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A bladderwort is a meat-eating water plant with tiny bladders (bags) on its underwater stems that suck in and trap very small animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#m1)
2. It grows in ponds, bogs and wet places all over the world and has little yellow or purple flowers above the water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons the bladderwort is a carnivorous plant like the Venus flytrap and sundew: it lives where the soil or water has few nutrients, so it gets extra food from tiny creatures such as water fleas. Its trap is one of the fastest movements in the plant world. Phrases: carnivorous plant, bladder trap.

### Examples

- The bladderwort has no roots and floats in the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x1)
- Tiny bladders on the bladderwort suck in water fleas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x2)
- A bladderwort's trap snaps shut in a split second. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x3)
- Bladderworts have pretty yellow flowers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x4)
- Like the Venus flytrap, the bladderwort eats tiny animals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x5)
- We looked at a bladderwort under a magnifying glass. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x6)
- Bladderworts grow in bogs where there are few nutrients. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/#x7)

### Note

Plural bladderworts. «-wort» is an old word for plant (as in St John's wort). It catches only very tiny animals, not insects like flies.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bladderwort» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bladderwort/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bladderwort» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bladderwort.html) on Mova free.