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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of certain sacs or cavities in the leaves of officinal and other species of aloe, filled with a colorless or variously colored sap. They are thin-walled and semicircular in transverse section.
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The anthocyan dye is limited to the sap-cavity of the cells, while the yellow and pure orange colors are fixed in special organs of the protoplasm.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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