BLADDER

bladder

(noun) a bag that fills with air

bladder, vesica

(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

bladder (plural bladders)

(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

(anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.

(botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.

The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.

A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.

(figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

Synonyms

• vesica

Verb

bladder (third-person singular simple present bladders, present participle bladdering, simple past and past participle bladdered)

To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

(transitive) To store or put up in bladders.

Source: Wiktionary

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Blad"der, n. Etym: [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl, bl; akin to Icel. bla, SW. bläddra, Dan. blære, D. blaar, OHG. blatara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. blawan, E. blow, to puff. See Blow to puff.]

1. (Anat.)

Definition: 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.

2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

3. (Bot.)

Definition: A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy." Rochester. 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 (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), 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 F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

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.

2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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