swim bladder : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: swim bladder	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for swim bladder
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
swim bladder n an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy Synonym(s): air bladder, swim bladder, float
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Swim \Swim\, n. 1. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming. --B. Jonson. 2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. 3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.] {Swim bladder}, an air bladder of a fish. {To be in the swim}, to be in a favored position; to be associated with others in active affairs. [Colloq.]