Word Meanings - NADDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An adder. Chaucer.

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• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• ADDERWORT
  The common bistort or snakeweed .
• ADDER
  One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
• ADDER FLY
  A dragon fly.
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• KADDER
  The jackdaw.
• NADDER
  An adder. Chaucer.
• BADDER
  compar. of Bad, a. Chaucer.
• BADDERLOCKS
  A large black seaweed sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.
• MADDERWORT
  A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order as the madder.
• MADDER
  A plant of the Rubia . The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous. Note: Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names
• 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.
• GADDER
  One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.
• 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
• WATER ADDER
  The water moccasin. The common, harmless American water snake . See Illust. under Water Snake.
• BLADDERY
  Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
• GLADDER
  One who makes glad. Chaucer.
• PADDER
  1. One who, or that which, pads. 2. A highwayman; a footpad.
• SEA ADDER
  The European fifteen-spined stickleback ; -- called also bismore. The European tanglefish, or pipefish .