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单词 air bladder
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
air blad′der, 
    1. a vesicle or sac containing air.
    2. FishAlso called gas bladder, swim bladder. [Ichthyol.]a gas-filled sac located against the roof of the body cavity of most bony fishes, originally functioning only as a lung, now serving in many higher fishes to regulate hydrostatic pressure.
    • 1725–35

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
air bladder n
  1. Also called: swim bladder 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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