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cell sap
noun
- the watery fluid within the central vacuole of a plant cell.
cell sap
- The liquid contained within a vacuole of a plant cell.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cell sap1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
The watery cell-sap (cytolymph) plays an important part in many of the larger cells.
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Mrs. Dana, in "Plants and her children," uses the term "sweet stuff" for nectar, "watery-broth" for the cell-sap of plants.
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They are found in the cytoplasma, or in the cell-sap, and can be fixed in picric acid and stained in methylene blue.
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Maltose rarely occurs as such in plants, although its presence in the cell-sap of leaves has sometimes been reported.
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It then passes into the cells by osmosis, and there becomes part of the cell sap.
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