bladdery

American  

[blad-uh-ree] / ˈblæd ə ri /

adjective

1. like or resembling a bladder.

2. inflated.

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Etymology

Origin of bladdery

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

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Example Sentences

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bladdery

One of the crested or monstrous forms, when grafted on a flat-stemmed kind, presents the queerest of appearances, looking like a large green cockscomb growing out of the top of a bladdery kind of stem.

From Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation by W. Watson

There was the first Sir Joshua ever drew of himself—and his last; this invaluable last is going—black cracks and masses of bladdery paint.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare

Literary societies know but little of this club, for literary societies despise the affairs of the real worker—they are interested in the bladdery essay written by the fashionable ass.

From The Colossus A Novel by Opie Percival Read

In the words of Dr. Gray, "The fruit is a globular dry berry, enclosed by a five-parted, bladdery inflated calyx."

From Seed Dispersal by W. J. (William James) Beal

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

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

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