The plants and trees had a distinctly bladderlike appearance, with leaves that were like thick pods and branches covered with green globules. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
The most abundant source of astaxanthin in nature is the single-cell microalga Haematococcus pluvialis, which accumulates astaxanthin in lipid (fat) vesicles (small, anatomically normal sac- or bladderlike structures) during periods of nutrient deficiency and environmental stress. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Young] Reference
Worse, he’d make us tow a bladderlike sea anchor while he and a date lounged on a raft and watched us struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
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 a wide mouth; if you have them you will put from four to six stone in a phiol of that capacity, to this you will add half a nutmeg, a douzen or 15 grains of cloves and thirty grains of cinimon finely pulverized, stir them well together and then add as much ardent sperits to the composition as will reduce it the consistency mustard prepared for the table; when thus prepared it resembles mustard precisely to all appearance. when you cannot procure. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference
It was bladderlike, and a bright blue and red. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
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