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Plural of bladder

regular plural

The plural of bladder is bladders.

Forms of bladder

Singularbladder /ˈblædə/
Pluralbladders
Countablecountable

Bladders in a sentence

  • In addition to gas bladders, the thallus of reproductive rockweed, Fucus, has inflated tips called receptacles.2013, George Karleskint, Jr.; Richard Turner; James W. Small, Jr., “Multicellular Primary Producers”, in Introduction to Marine Biology…. From the entry receptacle
  • Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like sturgeon.2009 April 28, Teresa M. Chen, A Tradition of Soup: Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry maw
  • Giraffes, oddly, sometimes have gall bladders and sometimes donʼt.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 178. From the entry gall bladder
  • Expanding the muscular gas bladders on its underside allows the creature to rise and orient itself in flight.2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Andromeda Wildlife: Manta Codex…. From the entry gas bladder
  • We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board.2008, Tim Winton, chapter 3, in Breath, Picador UK Paperback 2008 edition, page 30. From the entry Mississippi

Meaning of bladder

  1. noun A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
  2. noun Specifically, the urinary bladder.
  3. noun A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.

Full definition of bladder

Questions about the plural of bladder

What is the plural of bladder?
The plural of bladder is bladders.
Is bladder countable?
Bladder is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bladder (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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