saccate

American  

[sak-it, -eyt] / ˈsæk ɪt, -eɪt /

adjective

1. having a sac or the form of a sac.

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saccate British  

/ ˈsækeɪt /

adjective

1. botany in the form of a sac; pouched

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Other Word Forms

• multisaccate adjective

Etymology

Origin of saccate

1820–30; < New Latin saccātus, equivalent to sacc ( us ) sack ¹ + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

The asci in which these sporidia are generated mostly partake of a broadly saccate, ovate form.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Corolla saccate at the base, the throat closed by the large bearded palate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

In herbarium specimens usually saccate but sometimes revolute.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The features to be remembered in Perisporiacei, as forming the basis of their classification, are, that the asci are saccate, springing from the base of the perithecia, and are soon absorbed.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Mr. Lloyd thinks this plant is practically the same as the G. fimbriatus of Europe, differing from it in being more deeply saccate and having a determinate mouth.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha