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Sacculus

//ˈsak.jʊl.əs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small bag of herbs or medicinal substances, applied to the body. obsolete

    "Sacculi, or little bags of herbs, flowers, seeds, roots, and the like, applied to the head […]."

  2. 2
    a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) wordnet
  3. 3
    UK form of saccule. UK, alt-of

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin sacculus (“a little sack or bag”), diminutive of saccus (“a sack, bag, purse”). Doublet of saccule.

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