bladdery

[ blad-uh-ree ]

adjective

1. like or resembling a bladder.
2. inflated.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bladdery¹

First recorded in 1785–95; bladder + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Each ovary and nut included in a bladdery and closed bag.

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The small white flowers are produced in hanging racemes, succeeded by large bladdery pods, hence its common name.

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I opened this and found it full of green, bladdery ghoonyas.

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Fruit an ovate, bladdery capsule, ripening in autumn.

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The Latin and vernacular names both refer to "the bladdery appendage to fruiting perianth."

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