Word Meanings - KNAPBOTTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bladder campion .

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• BLADDERWORT
  A genus 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
  Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
• BLADDER
  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. 2. Any vesicle or
• CAMPION
  A plant of the Pink family , bearing berries regarded as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pink family , having a much inflated calyx. See Behen. -- Rose campion, a garden plant with handsome crimsome crimson flowers.
• 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. 2. A