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air bladder en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An internal organ that fish use to control their buoyancy, allowing them to maintain or change depth by changing their density.
  2. A type of packing material that consists of an airtight bag full of air, used to cushion fragile items.
    • The company used to be notorious for excessive packaging, and social media grew littered with examples: three pairs of socks wrapped in puffy air bladders[…] 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:

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Synonyms

fish maw · gas bladder · swim bladder