a. [f. BLADDER sb. + -Y1.]

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  1.  Of the nature of a bladder; thin and inflated; inflated and hollow. lit. and fig.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxv. 370. A berry … with a bladdery pulp.

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1810.  Crabbe, Borough, ix. Th’ entangled weeds … upborne on bladdery beads.

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1831.  Fraser’s Mag., III. 343. Bladdery laudations.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 51. Calyx bladdery.

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  2.  Abounding in bladders or vesicles.

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1798–9.  Coleridge, Lines to Lady, ii. In dim cave with bladdery seaweed strewed.

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1880.  Browning, Pan & Luna, 60. The bladdery wave-worked yeast.

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