CommonParlance
Seed
Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
- Science Proposed
-
bladder cherry in CommonParlance
- definition Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
-
bladder disorder in CommonParlance
- definition a disorder of the urinary bladder
-
bladder fern in CommonParlance
- definition any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori
-
bladder fucus in CommonParlance
- definition a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
-
bladder ketmia in CommonParlance
- definition annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
-
bladder senna in CommonParlance
- definition yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food
-
bladder sphincter in CommonParlance
- definition the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder; made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening
-
bladder stone in CommonParlance
- definition a calculus formed in the bladder
-
bladder worm in CommonParlance
- definition encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm
-
bladderlike in CommonParlance
- definition resembling a bladder
-
bladdernose in CommonParlance
- definition medium-sized blackish-grey seal with large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic and northern Atlantic waters
-
bladderpod in CommonParlance
- definition North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic
- definition annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella
- definition any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods
- definition any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods
-
bladderwort in CommonParlance
- definition any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals
-
bladderwrack in CommonParlance
- definition similar to and found with black rockweed
- definition a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
-
bladdery in CommonParlance
- definition resembling a bladder
-
blade in CommonParlance
- definition especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- definition a dashing young man
- definition something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- definition a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- definition a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- definition a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- definition the part of the skate that slides on the ice
- definition flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- definition the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
-
blade apple in CommonParlance
- definition small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
-
blade bit in CommonParlance
- definition a drilling bit with cutting edges usually hardened against wear
-
blade roast in CommonParlance
- definition a roast cut from the blade
-
bladed in CommonParlance
- definition bearing or characterized by a blade or sword; often used in combination
- definition having a blade or blades; often used in combination
- definition composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade
-
bladelike in CommonParlance
- definition shaped like a sword blade
-
blae in CommonParlance
- definition of bluish-black or grey-blue
-
blaeberry in CommonParlance
- definition erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
-
blah in CommonParlance
- definition pompous or pretentious talk or writing
-
blahs in CommonParlance
- definition a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction