1. a shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea that produces inflated seed pods resembling bladders
Usage: botanical

Examples

• The bladdernut’s distinctive papery seed pods rattled in the autumn breeze.
• Native American bladdernut grows wild in eastern woodlands.
• The gardener planted a bladdernut for its unusual inflated fruit capsules.
• Bladdernut shrubs produce small white flowers in spring clusters.
• The three-lobed seed pods of the bladdernut are its most recognizable feature.