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vacuole

/vak-yoo-ohl/US // ˈvæk yuˌoʊl //UK // (ˈvækjʊˌəʊl) //

液泡,液胞,液穴,液态细胞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Biology.

    • : a membrane-bound cavity within a cell, often containing a watery liquid or secretion.
    • : a minute cavity or vesicle in organic tissue.

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Examples

  • Checking the ill animals’ brains revealed swathes of unnatural microscopic holes, or vacuoles.

  • This is done by pulsation of the vacuole, which ultimately bursts, passing fluid waste to the outside.

  • These masses of food seem to be inclosed within a little area containing fluid, called a vacuole.

  • Waste nitrogenous products formed within the cell when work is done are passed out by means of the contractile vacuole.

  • Spores with two polar-capsules, and without an iodinophilous vacuole in the sporoplasm.

  • Contractile vacuole absent; the nucleus is spherical and contains many large chromatin granules.