saccate
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Etymology
Origin of saccate
1820–30; < New Latin saccātus, equivalent to sacc ( us ) sack 1 + -ātus -ate 1
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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 Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Antheridia 3–20, in the axils of small saccate leaves, which are scarcely imbricate or crowded into terminal heads.
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 Asa Gray
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 Asa Gray
Corolla of 4 or 5 separate erect spatulate or wedge-shaped scale-like petals, which are gibbous or saccate at the base, and tardily deciduous.
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 Asa Gray
The asci in which these sporidia are generated mostly partake of a broadly saccate, ovate form.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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