Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Shaped like a pouch or sac.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, furnished with or having the form of a bag or pouch: as, a saccate petal.
  • In anatomy and zoology: Forming or formed by a sac; cystic; pouch-like; sacciform; sacculate.
  • Having a sac, or saccate part; pouched; sacculated; sacciferous.
  • Specifically, of or pertaining to the Saccata or the Saccatæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Shaped like a pouch or sac.
  • adjective Having a pouch or sac.
  • adjective Enclosed in a sac.
  • adjective botany Of a pollen grain that has one or more sacci.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin saccus, bag; see sack + –ate.]

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