English noun: sac |
1. | sac (shape) an enclosed space |
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| Samples | The trapped miners found a pocket of air.
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| Synonyms | pocket, pouch, sack |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cavity, enclosed space |
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2. | sac (plant) a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule |
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| Synonyms | theca |
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| Broader (hypernym) | cover, covering, natural covering |
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3. | Sac (person) a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay |
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| Synonyms | Sauk |
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| Broader (hypernym) | Algonquian, Algonquin |
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| Instance hyponym | Black Hawk, Keokuk, Makataimeshekiakiak |
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4. | sac (body) a structure resembling a bag in an animal |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bodily cavity, cavity, cavum |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acinus, air bladder, air cell, air sac, air sac, air sac, alveolus, amnion, amnios, amniotic sac, bladder, bursa, chorion, cistern, cisterna, coelenteron, cyst, float, pericardial sac, pocket, pouch, saccule, sacculus, swim bladder, umbilical vesicle, vesica, vesicle, vesicula umbilicus, vitelline sac, yolk sac, yolk sac |
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