Word Meanings - UTRICULOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate. Dana.

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• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• UTRICULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to a utricle, or utriculus; containing, or furnished with, a utricle or utricles; utriculate; as, a utricular plant. 2. Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• BLADDER
  A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. Any vesicle or
• BLADDERWORT
  A genus of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.
• UTRICULATE
  Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular. Dana.
• BLADDERY
  Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• UTRICULARIA
  A genus of aquatic flowering plants, in which the submersed leaves bear many little utricles, or ascidia. See Ascidium,
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• SACCULO-UTRICULAR
  Pertaining to the sacculus and utriculus of the ear.
• AIR BLADDER
  An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus. 2. A
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.