bladderlike

Thân thiện

The child holds a bladderlike balloon that floats above the grass.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling a bladder in form, shape, or structure: Having a hollow, inflated, or sac-like appearance similar to a biological bladder or a balloon.
   • Having a membranous, inflated quality: Describing something that is thin-walled and swollen or distended.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The fungus had a distinctive, bladderlike structure.
  • The artist created a sculpture with a smooth, bladderlike form.
  • Certain seed pods are bladderlike when they dry.

Advanced Usage

• Scientific/Technical Context: Commonly used in biology, botany, and medicine to describe anatomical features, plant parts, or pathological structures that have a sac-like morphology.
  • The cyst appeared bladderlike on the ultrasound image.

Variants and Related Words

• Bladder (n): A membranous sac in humans and animals, often for holding liquid (e.g., urinary bladder), or a similar inflatable bag.
• Bladdery (adj): Alternative form meaning resembling or having bladders; bladderlike.

Synonyms

• Saclike: Having the form of a pouch or sac.
• Vesicular: Composed of or resembling small bladders or vesicles.
• Inflated: Distended with air or gas; puffed out.

Antonyms

• Solid: Firm and stable in shape; not hollow.
• Flat: Having a level surface; not swollen or distended.
• Deflated: Having had the air or gas removed; collapsed.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. resembling a bladder

Từ đồng nghĩa

• bladdery