U·tric·u·la·ri·a n.  Bot. A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,
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  Utricularia
       n : bladderworts: large genus of aquatic carnivorous plants;
           cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: genus Utricularia]