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Swim 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.

Swim Bladder

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noun
ichthyology another name for air bladder (sense 1)

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Swim Bladder

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a gas-filled sac in the dorsal portion of the body cavity of most bony fishes, giving buoyancy to the body and used as an accessory, lunglike organ in lungfishes

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

Swim Bladder

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n.
A gas-filled structure in many fishes that functions to maintain buoyancy and, in some species, to aid in respiration or to produce sound. Also called air bladder, gas bladder.

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