Vacuole

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vacuole \Vac"u*ole\, n. [L. vacuus empty: cf. F. vacuole.]
     (Biol.)
     A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of
     organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery
     liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell
     protoplasm.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Contractile vacuole}. (Zool.) See under {Contractile}, and
        see Illusts. of {Infusoria}, and {Lobosa}.
  
     {Food vacuole}. (Zool.) See under {Food}, and see Illust. of
        {Infusoria}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vacuole
       n : a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacuole":
     Golgi apparatus, aster, basal body, cell membrane,
     central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm,
     centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia,
     cytocentrum, flagella, kinoplasm, microbody, microcentrum,
     mitochondrion, pili, plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, ribosome,
     spherosome, spindle fibers