1.
[syn: bladder, vesica]
2. a bag that fills with air;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bladder \Blad"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bladdered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Bladdering.]
1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.]
--G. Fletcher.
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2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bladder \Blad"der\ (bl[a^]d"d[~e]r), n. [OE. bladder, bleddre,
AS. bl[=ae]dre, bl[=ae]ddre; akin to Icel. bla[eth]ra, SW.
bl[aum]ddra, Dan. bl[ae]re, D. blaar, OHG. bl[=a]tara the
bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule;
all fr. the same root as AS. bl[=a]wan, E. blow, to puff. See
Blow to puff.]
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1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the
receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the
gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary
bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and
inflated with air.
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2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or
a thin, watery fluid.
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3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
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4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with
bladders of philosophy." --Rochester.
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Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants
(Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods.
Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with
inflated seed pods.
Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with
membranaceous, inflated pods.
Bladder worm (Zool.), the larva of any species of tapeworm
(T[ae]nia), found in the flesh or other parts of
animals. See Measle, Cysticercus.
Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the
seacoast (Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) --
called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bladder
n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or
gas) [syn: bladder, vesica]
2: a bag that fills with air
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "bladder":
air bubble, bag, ball, balloon, bleb, blister, blob, blood blister,
boll, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulla, cap and bells,
coxcomb, ellipsoid, fever blister, fob, geoid, globe, globelet,
globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, motley,
oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pocket, poke,
prolate spheroid, rondure, sac, sack, slapstick, soap bubble, sock,
sphere, spheroid, spherule, vesicle