bladder | (noun) a bag that fills with air | - |
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(noun) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) | Synonyms: vesica |
bladderlike | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladdery |
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bladdernose | (noun) medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Cystophora cristata, hooded seal |
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bladderpod | (noun) any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods | - |
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(noun) any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods | - |
(noun) annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella | - |
(noun) North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: Indian tobacco, Lobelia inflata |
bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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(noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
bladdery | (adjective) resembling a bladder | Synonyms: bladderlike |
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cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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gallbladder | (noun) a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion | Synonyms: gall bladder |
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gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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(verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
gladdened | (adjective) made joyful | Synonyms: exhilarated |
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gladdon | (noun) iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa | Synonyms: gladdon iris, Iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris |
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ladder | (noun) steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs; for climbing up or down | - |
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(noun) a row of unravelled stitches | Synonyms: ravel, run |
(noun) ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress | - |
(verb) come unraveled or undone as if by snagging | Synonyms: run |
laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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