The Collaborative International Dictionary
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["a]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.]
(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.
Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
(Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
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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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Usage examples of "bladder wrack".
The fringe of bladder wrack and knot wrack stretched, relaxed, flowed in again on nervous water.
My ragged cloak lifted in the wind as I turned around a pillar of pale stone to see a cave that lay a few feet above the dark line of oar weed and bladder wrack stranded by the highest tides.
Looking over the edge, I could see a floating mass of bladder wrack, half-strandcd on the widening strip of beach.
The first ten feet were boulders, slippery with bladder wrack, treacherous in the complete blackness, but by no means steep.
Gradually his gaze wanderedto the greenish-brown beards of bladder wrack clingingto the damp rocks below.