👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird bit of late 19th and early 20th-century American argle bargle:
pond apple.
Now, immediately upon hearing that you probably think, "Wait... like a little, tartish apple from the bottom of a pond? Delightfully rustic, perhaps with a slightly slimy rind?" You wouldn't be entirely off base. Historically, and frankly rather disturbingly, the term referred to a specific, now mostly extinct, species of bladderwort—specifically, Barclayorhizal depressiuscula . Let’s unpack that for you. Barclayorhizal... depressi… what now? Okay! Basically, this was an aquatic carnivorous plant. Think of the most aggressively aggressive duck weed you've ever seen, then multiply its suckerness by about a thousand. These bladderwort guys were experts at trapping anything foolish enough to blunder into their little underwater bladders – everything from tadpoles and snails, right up to small fish! They essentially sucked them down in seconds. The name "pond apple," which spread really amongst the rural communities of the American South and Midwest around 1860-1920, wasn't a descriptive one. Rather, it was a deliberately euphemistic, almost wilfully coy term for… let’s just say, female genitalia—specifically the fullness of the clitoris when erect. You see, the shape
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