noun a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
Origin of sac 1735–45; <
Latin saccus sack1 Related forms sac·like , adjective noun, plural Sacs, (especially collectively ) Sac. Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Examples from the Web for sac Contemporary Examples of sac Meanwhile, in lower Manhattan, former SAC Capital manager Matthew Martoma is on trial for insider trading in drug-company stocks.
As part of the deal, Cohen and SAC Capital had to plead guilty to the charges, and had to accept a further monetary punishment.
Cohen and SAC in March agreed to pay a $616 million fine to settle insider-trading charges.
The settlement is actually for $1.8 billion, but SAC Capital is getting a credit for the $616 million it already paid the SEC.
On Monday, SAC agreed to pay a record $1.2 billion to resolve insider-trading charges.
Historical Examples of sac The spores are inclosed in these sac s, usually eight in a sac .
This sac later divides into two, and develops into the lungs of the animal.
The Serpent is converted into a sac , holding up the rain-waters.
If the sac then is not to be opened, the rest of the operation is very simple.
It is not at all necessary in every case to open the sac of the peritoneum.
British Dictionary definitions for sac noun a pouch, bag, or pouchlike part in an animal or plant
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Derived Forms saclike , adjective Word Origin for sac C18: from French, from Latin saccus; see sack 1
abbreviation for (in Britain) Special Area of Conservation
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Word Origin and History for sac n. "biological pocket," 1741, from French sac , from Latin saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)).
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central Algonquian people who lived near the upper Mississippi before the Black Hawk War of 1832, from French Canadian Saki , probably a shortened borrowing of Ojibwa (Algonquian) /osa:ki:/ , literally "person of the outlet" (of the Saginaw River, which itself contains their name, and means literally "in the Sauk country").
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n. A pouch or bursa.
An encysted abscess at the root of a tooth.
The capsule of a tumor or the envelope of a cyst.
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A pouch or pouch-shaped structure in an animal or plant, often containing liquids. The human bladder is a sac.
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