Definition of Sacculate

1. Adjective. Formed with or having saclike expansions. "The alimentary tract is partially sacculated"

Exact synonyms: Sacculated
Partainyms: Saccule, Saccule

Definition of Sacculate

1. Adjective. See sacculated. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sacculate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacculate

sacciferous
sacciform
sacciform recess
saccing
saccoglossa
saccoi
saccolabium
saccos
saccoses
saccular
saccular aneurysm
saccular bronchiectasis
saccular gland
saccular nerve
saccular spot
sacculate (current term)
sacculated
sacculated pleurisy
sacculation
sacculation of colon
sacculations
saccule
saccule and utricle
saccule of larynx
saccules
sacculi
sacculina
sacculocochlear
sacculoutricular
sacculus

Literary usage of Sacculate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1907)
"The rectum, on account of its attenuated condition due to the previous pressure that has been long exercised, has a tendency to also sacculate, but by the ..."

2. Botanical Commentaries by Jonathan Stokes (1830)
"In a garden. Leaves, floral leaves cordate and ovato.cordate, blackish green. Corolla to 5 and 5£ tenths of an inch long; segments oval, slightly sacculate, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The primary body cavity is filled with parenchymatous tissue, giving characteristic firmness to the body. The alimentary system is sacculate and provided ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"When the mouth is filled with air the nostrils are closed, and the animal swallows the bolus of air into the sacculate lungs, there being, in the absence of ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"When the mouth is filled with air the nostrils are closed, and the animal swallows the bolus of air into the sacculate lungs, there being, in the absence of ..."

6. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Suckers unarmed. Genital pores marginal (see 84 just below). Sex organs in each proglottid simple or double. Uterus sacculate or lobed, simple. ..."

7. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... ribs well developed; air-bladder very large, sacculate, of numerous separate divisions; intestine short, straight; gills reticulated as in Xiphias. ..."

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