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Air Bladder

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Noun

1. air bladder, float, swim bladder

an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Air Bladder

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noun
1. Also called: swim bladder ichthyology
an air-filled sac, lying above the alimentary canal in bony fishes, that regulates buoyancy at different depths by a variation in the pressure of the air
2. 
any air-filled sac, such as one of the bladders of seaweeds

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Air Bladder

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a sac with air or gas in it, found in most fishes and in other animals and some plants
: also air cell

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Air Bladder

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n.
1. See swim bladder.
2. See float.

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