Etymology
Origin of bladdery
Example Sentences
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Bloodless and bladdery things ran hither and thither noiselessly.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
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 Gray, Asa
Pemphigus is a contagious disease attended with bladdery eruptions appearing on the second or third day, as large as filberts, which, remain many days, and then effuse a thin ichor.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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 Bierce, Ambrose
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 Beal, W. J. (William James)
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