Etymology
Origin of bladdery
Example Sentences
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Each ovary and nut included in a bladdery and closed bag.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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.
It was a mass of bladdery seaweed that the returning tide was wafting slowly to the shore.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
Fruit rounded, bladdery, 3-celled, few-seeded pods; ripe in autumn.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
There is a bladdery old nasality ranging about the country upon free passes, vexing the public ear with "hallowed songs," and making of himself a spectacle to the eye.
From The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce
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