saccular

[sak-yuh-ler]

adjective

1. having the form of a sac.

saccular

/ ˈsækjʊlə /

adjective

1. of or resembling a sac

Other Word Forms

• postsaccular adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of saccular¹

First recorded in 1860–65; saccul(us) + -ar ¹

Example Sentences

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

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Here the dorsal portion of the pharynx has become nipped off as a narrow tube which functions as an oesophagus from the larger ventral portion, which forms an elongated saccular structure ending blindly at its hinder end and having in its lateral wall the internal openings of the gill-sacs.

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In the majority of the Decapoda there is a saccular invagination of the integument in the basal segment of the antennular peduncle having on its inner surface “auditory” setae of the type just described.

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The gonads, as in other Arthropoda, are hollow saccular organs, the cavity communicating with the efferent ducts.

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And if, as I believe, it can be demonstrated that ordinary coal Is nothing but "saccular" coal which has undergone a certain amount of that alteration which, if continued, would convert it into anthracite; then, the conclusion is obvious, that the great mass of the coal we burn is the result of the accumulation of the spores and spore-cases of plants, other parts of which have furnished the carbonized stems and the mineral charcoal, or have left their impressions on the surfaces of the layer.

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