saccate
Americanadjective
adjective
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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Raceme loose; flowers rather large; lip 3-ridged, not spurred or saccate.
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
Anthers two-celled; saccate; opening terminally; furnished with a pair of reflexed horns near the summit.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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)
The lip concave; saccate; eared at base; with a jointed, pendulous tip.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Involucre simple, fleshy, saccate, oblong, truncate, attached to the stem by one side of the mouth.
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
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