Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) 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..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound..

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard..

Bladdered :: Bladdered (imp. & p. p.) of Bladde.

Bladdering :: Bladdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladde.

Bladderwort :: Bladderwort (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium..

Bladdery :: Bladdery (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder..

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