food vacuole

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A vacuole in which phagocytized food is digested.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A temporary vacuole or clear space in the endosarc of a protozoan, due to the presence of a particle of food, usually with a little water. It forms a kind of digestive cavity which travels about in the substance of the animal, and often has a kind of rhythmic systole and diastole.

Wiktionary

1. n. A vacuole in which phagocytized food is digested.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) one of the spaces in the interior of a protozoan in which food is contained, during digestion.
2. n. (Zoöl.) See under Food, and see Illust. of Infusoria.