Bladder vs Capsule - What's the difference?
bladder | capsule |
(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
(anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
(botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
(figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
* Rochester
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
To store or put up in bladders.
(physiology) A membranous envelope.
(botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
(botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
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A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
(dialectal, UK, Suffolk) A weasel.
(attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
* 1962 , :
(winemaking) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
(chemistry, dated) A small clay saucer for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.
A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
In botany terms the difference between bladder and capsule
is that bladder is a hollow, inflatable organ of a plant while capsule is a sporangium, especially in bryophytes.As nouns the difference between bladder and capsule
is that bladder is a flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases while capsule is a membranous envelope.As a verb bladder
is to swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.bladder
English
Noun
(en noun)- to swim with bladders of philosophy
Synonyms
* vesicaDerived terms
* air bladder * bladdered * bladderpod * bladderwrack * gall bladder * gas bladder * shy bladder * swim bladder * urinary bladderVerb
(en verb)- bladdered lard
capsule
English
Noun
(en noun)- The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis'', with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in ''Frullania spp.
- If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred.