(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases. / (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder. / (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.

To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. / (transitive) To store or put up in bladders.

plural of bladder

(in combination) Having a specified kind of bladder. / (UK, slang) Drunk. / Swollen like a bladder; bladdery.

As much as a bladder can hold.

plural of bladderful

present participle of bladder

(anatomy, usually of fish) A gas-filled sac within the bodies of most fish that variously acts as a float, lung, sound-producing organ or an aid to hearing.

(anatomy) A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.

(anatomy) An elastic, muscular sac situated in the pelvic cavity, into which urine from the kidneys is temporarily stored prior to disposal by urination. Urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the urethra.