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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
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