saclike , also: baglike

These animals have a simple nervous system and a saclike gut.

Each was about the size of goat or large dog; their bodies were round and saclike.

At the ends of each duct, there is a saclike portion called the ampulla.

It is also the name of a meal of tiny saclike dumplings.

They are round, saclike structures full of mature spores.

Then I realized it was the sound of the burning gas in the saclike wicks of the lamps.

The tiny, saclike dumplings looked like pale, wet, unformed creatures in their uncooked state.

He looked around, saw how V'ornn technology had carved out a series of saclike cells in this section of the bedrock.

Tiny saclike containers, known as vesicles, ferry proteins and other vital products through the interior of cells from one site to another.

That is, it has a saclike shape, and its wall has holes of two sizes, with a well-developed internal canal system.

The individual coral animal (polyp) secretes a cup-shaped exoskeleton around its saclike body.

The ventricle is saclike in shape and has a relative mass approximately three times greater than that of related "red-blooded" Antarctic fish.

Each saclike bump of its anatomy was an individual cell, anywhere from a few millimeters to a couple of centimeters in size.

They described the membrane-like barrier as a "saclike structure surrounded by a membrane and containing acid phosphatase."

The hemipenial sloughs so formed are saclike and reproduce all the external features of the hemipenes in great detail.

Alveolar glands have a saclike secretory portion, thus are also termed saccular glands.

Trophozoites of M. bibullatus form saclike interlamellar cysts at the base of gill filaments.

This increase is compensated for by endocytosis accomplished by the formation of saclike plasmalemma invaginations into the peripheral cytoplasm.

Adults have few follicles, the saclike structures in the skin in which hairs develop, and the scant follicles they do have lack hair.

Though she made her name with sensuous business outfits for the middle-aged working woman, she has since designed several collections that were amorphous, saclike and poorly received.

Tubular glands retain their shape as a tube throughout their length whereas alveolar glands have a saclike secretory portion.

Some melyrids (Malachiinae) have peculiar orange structures along the sides of the abdomen, which may be everted and saclike or withdrawn into the body and inconspicuous.

Walcott's "worm"--with an annulated front portion separated from a saclike posterior--is almost surely a weird wonder.

Mature females are usually wingless and saclike, whereas the males have large, fanlike hindwings, short, clublike forewings, bulging eyes, and comblike antennae.