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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-- Marine or aquatic algae consisting of membranous, flat, and expanded tubular or saccate fronds composed of polygonal cells firmly joined together by their sides.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various
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