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Biology's junk drawer word: one syllable, zero glamour, holds everything from venom to tears.
means A pouch-like structure in a plant or animal that holds a liquid, gas, or other substance — anatomy's catch-all bag.
from From French 'sac,' from Latin 'saccus' meaning a bag or sack, which itself goes back to Greek 'sakkos' — a word for coarse cloth or sacking, possibly borrowed from a Semitic language (compare Hebrew 'saq'). So the venom sac in a snake's mouth shares its deepest root with the burlap sack you'd haul potatoes in — both are, etymologically, just containers.
- etymology
- from latin saccus, literally just bag
- venom storage
- snakes keep their weapons in one
- amniotic version
- your first home before you had an address
- tear ducts
- lacrimal sac drains crying into your nose