Biology. More generally: a natural receptacle in an animal (or plant) resembling a bag or pocket, as a pouch, a marsupium, a cyst, an ovicapsule, etc.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > bag- or bottle-like part (10) purse?a1425 Biology. More generally: a natural receptacle in an animal (or plant) resembling a bag or pocket, as a pouch, a marsupium, a cyst, an ovicapsule, etc. vesicle1670 Similarly in Botany. vesicula1705 = vesicle, n. 1. Usually in plural. utricle1731 Botany. A small sac or bladder-shaped body; a bottle-shaped part or structure. utriculus1753 Botany. (See quots. and utricle, n.1 1.) bladder1777 Botany. A hollow vesicle occurring as an appendage of several plants, as the genus Utricularia, and various seaweeds. Cf. air bladder, n. sac1830 Biology. Any natural bag-like cavity with its membranous covering in an animal or vegetable organism. in plants. utricule1830 A small bladder-like sac or body. urceolus1832 (See quots. 1866, 1886.) pocket1862 Any of various sacs or pouch-like cavities in the body of an animal or in a plant. Now chiefly Zoology. |
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