sac
pronunciation
How to pronounce sac in British English:
UK [sæk]
How to pronounce sac in American English:
US [sæk]
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- Noun:
- an enclosed space
- a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule
- a structure resembling a bag in an animal
Word Origin
- sac
- sac: see sachet
- sac (n.)
- "biological pocket," 1741, from French sac, from Latin saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)).
- Sac
- central Algonquian people who lived near the upper Mississippi before the Black Hawk War of 1832, from French Canadian Saki, probably a shortened borrowing of Ojibwa (Algonquian) /osa:ki:/, literally "person of the outlet" (of the Saginaw River, which itself contains their name, and means literally "in the Sauk country").
Example
- 1. Treating with nose endoscope following lachrymal sac operations .
- 2. Sac itself has not been charged with any wrongdoing .
- 3. Eggs act this way in water because of the air sac present in all eggs .
- 4. Mobile mouse control protagonist , the bad guys escape harassment at the same time , the income of all precious sac .
- 5. The concept of an alternation of generations can be extended to the flowering plants , in which the embryo sac and pollen represent the much reduced famale and male gametophyte generations respectively .