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sac noun [ sak ]

• a hollow, flexible structure resembling a bag or pouch.
• "a fountain pen with an ink sac"
Similar: bag, pouch, bladder, blister, bursa, acinus, follicle, cyst, saccule, utricle, vesicle, vesica, vesicula, theca, liposome,
Origin: mid 18th century (as a term in biology): from French sac or Latin saccus ‘sack, bag’.

SAC abbreviation

• (in the US) Strategic Air Command.

SAC abbreviation

• (in the RAF) Senior Aircraftman or Senior Aircraftwoman.

Sauk noun

• a member of a North American people inhabiting parts of the central US, formerly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, now in Oklahoma and Kansas.
• the Algonquian language of the Sauk.

Sauk adjective

• relating to the Sauk or their language.
Origin: from Canadian French Saki, from Ojibwa osākī .


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