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bladderlike

bladderlike \blad"der*like\ adj. similar to a bladder.

Syn: bladdery.

Wiktionary
bladderlike

a. Resembling a bladder or some aspect of one.

WordNet
bladderlike

adj. resembling a bladder [syn: bladdery]

Usage examples of "bladderlike".

If the timing was right, the bladderlike animals would be gorged on those flickering biologies everyone saw but could not reach.

But the fangs held fast, and I heard the popping, sucking sound of the bladderlike seed pods of a leech plant, as they expanded and contracted like small ugly lungs.

The chemical responses of the bladderlike pods produce a mechanical pumping action, and the blood is sucked into the plant to nourish it.

Certainly they could have been penciled on, flat and lifeless as they looked, with bladderlike scar tissue over the eyes and a crescent of dead white skin on each cheek.

Among the dangling entrails, however, several bladderlike appendages pulsed, pushing enough air through her voice box for a short answer or two.

Jan kept his people out of the waves until the next tide swept the bladderlike creatures with their trailing tendrils away.

If the timing was right, the bladderlike animals would be gorged on those flickering biologics everyone saw but could not reach.

Then they rounded an outcropping of the rough gray stone that punctuated the long crescent beach, and came upon a sizable pool in which were trapped a variety of marine life, things that scurried on multiple legs, a couple of purple bladderlike objects that Sorka was certain would be poisonous, and some finger-long transparent creatures that seemed almost like fish.