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Swim Bladder

Definition: Swim Bladder

Swim Bladder

Noun

1. An air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Swim Bladder

Synonym: air bladder (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Swim Bladder

Specialty definitions using "swim bladder": Pedigree. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Swim Bladder

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Swim Bladder

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

swim bladder

18

swim bladder disease

17
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Modern Translation: Swim Bladder

Language Translations for "swim bladder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

vessie natatoire. (various references)

   

German

  

Schwimmblase (air bladder). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imsway adderblay

   

Swedish

  

simblÄsa (float, swimming bladder, swimming-bladder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Swim Bladder

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Colutea arborescens, Levisticum officinale, levisticum officinale koch. (various references)

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Anagrams: Swim Bladder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-i-l-m-r-s-w"

-3 letters: bawdries, bedrails, bedwards, bladders, dawdlers, disabled, disarmed, dismaler, middlers, semibald, sideward, waddlers, wamblier.

-4 letters: abiders, addible, admired, admires, amblers, ambries, baddies, bailers, baldies, balmier, bawdier, bawdies, bawlers, bedlams, bedrail, bedward, beldams, beswarm, bewails, bidders, bladder, blamers, braided, brailed, braised, brawled, brawlie, bridals, bridled, bridles, darbies, dawdler, dawdles, derails, diadems, dialers, disable, drawled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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