swim bladder

Questions about swim bladder

What is another word for swim bladder?

It depends which swim bladder you mean. In the sense “an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy”, the synonyms are air bladder, float. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of swim bladder?

WordNet records no antonym for swim bladder. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for swim bladder come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of swim bladder

• Full entry for swim bladderAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for swim bladderWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.