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adj. - Resembling a membranous sac in animals that serves as the receptacle of a fluid

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  • The plants and trees had a distinctly bladderlike appearance, with leaves that were like thick pods and branches covered with green globules.
  • The most abundant source of astaxanthin in nature is the single-cell microalga Haematococcus pluvialis, which accumulates astaxanthin in lipid (fat) vesicles (small,...
  • Worse, he’d make us tow a bladderlike sea anchor while he and a date lounged on a raft and watched us struggle.
  • To prepare beaver bate, the castor or bark stone is taken as the base, this is gently pressed out of the bladderlike bag which contains it, into a phiol of 4 ounces with...
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