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cell_sap

cell sap

English

Noun

cell sap (uncountable)

  1. (biology) The liquid enclosed inside the vacuole of a plant cell.
    • 2009, Randy O. Wayne, Plant Cell Biology: From Astronomy to Zoology, page 101:
      This region, which includes a transparent, or rarely colored, watery substance known as the cell sap, is called the vacuole, a term that comes from the Latin word for “empty.”