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Definition: Swim Bladder |
Swim BladderNoun1. 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 BladderSynonym: air bladder (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Swim Bladder |
| Specialty definitions using "swim bladder": Pedigree. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
swim bladder | 18 |
swim bladder disease | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 simblÄsa (float, swimming bladder, swimming-bladder). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Colutea arborescens, Levisticum officinale, levisticum officinale koch. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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