Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a pouch or sac.
- adj. Having a pouch or sac.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, furnished with or having the form of 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Shaped like a pouch or sac.
- adj. Having a pouch or sac.
- adj. Enclosed in a sac.
- adj. botany Of a pollen grain that has one or more sacci.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Latin saccus, bag; see sack1 + -ate1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- Marine or aquatic algae consisting of membranous, flat, and expanded tubular or saccate fronds composed of polygonal cells firmly joined together by their sides.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘saccate’.
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
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jeffreytwhitney's list
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misc. plant morphology
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
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Obscure Words
euouae, delitescent, dysphonia, saccate, saprostomous, high muckamuck
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