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food vacuole

noun

, Cell Biology.
  1. a membrane-enclosed cell vacuole with a digestive function, containing material taken up in by the process of phagocytosis.


food vacuole

noun

  1. biology a cavity surrounding ingested food particles in some protozoans
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of food vacuole1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

The food vacuole seems to be acidic, just like our stomach, based on its reaction to the various dies and labels the scientists used.

Each parasite has a holding tank called a food vacuole filled with iron-rich crystallized hemozoin.

The hemozoin crystals, packed with concentrated iron, are pushed into the parasite’s food vacuole — the empty space where a rudimentary creature that does not have a gut dumps its waste products.

Little particles of nutritive matter are usually to be detected in the homogeneous protoplasm of its body; commonly these are surrounded by a drop of water taken in with them, and the drop of water is then called a food vacuole.

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