Sac (Noun)
Meaning 1
A member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
A structure resembling a bag in an animal.
Classification
Nouns denoting body parts.
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Meaning 3
A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule.
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 4
An enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air".
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The divers swam through the narrow sac of water that separated the two underwater caverns.
- The firefighters found a sac of breathable air in the attic of the burning building.
- The trapped miners found a pocket of air in a small sac of rock that had been left untouched by the cave-in.
- The explorers discovered a hidden sac of water deep within the cave system.
- The rescuers managed to locate a sac of air in the wreckage of the plane that had crashed into the ocean.