saccate

American

[sak-it, -eyt] / ˈsæk ɪt, -eɪt /

adjective

having a sac or the form of a sac.

saccate British

/ ˈsækeɪt /

adjective

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

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Lip barely saccate below, tapering and its sides involute above; anther ovate, long-pointed, borne on the base of the very short column, which is continued above the stigma into a conspicuous tapering awl-shaped gland-bearing beak.

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Lower lobe mostly saccate, more or less remote from the stem.

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Subdichotomously branching; leaves dark olive-green, subimbricate, obliquely ovate, acute, entire or subrepand; lower lobe saccate, rather remote from the stem, not spurred as in the European form; underleaves roundish, serrate or entire; involucral leaves bifid, serrate; perianth triangular-obpyriform.

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Antheridia solitary in the saccate bases of leaves, crowded in short spikes.

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Spur none; the broadly gibbous somewhat saccate base wholly free from the ovary; flowers large for the genus, purple, unspotted, more expanding.

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