vacuole

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French vacuole, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin vacuola, formed as a diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vacuus (“empty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvækjʊˌəʊl/

Noun

vacuole (plural vacuoles)

1. (cytology) A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm.

Derived terms

• contractile vacuole
• evacuole
• food vacuole
• hemivacuole
• macrovacuole
• microvacuole
• provacuole

 

Translations

large membrane-bound vesicle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 液泡 (zh) (yèpào)

• Czech: vakuola (cs) f
• Dutch: vacuole (nl) f
• Esperanto: vakuolo
• Finnish: vakuoli (fi)
• French: vacuole (fr) f
• Galician: vacúolo m
• German: Vakuole f
• Hebrew: חלולית f (khalulít)
• Hungarian: sejtnedvüreg (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: vakuolo (io)
• Japanese: 液胞 (ja) (えきほう, ekihō)
• Maori: miru
• Polish: wakuola (pl) f, wodniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: vacúolo m
• Russian: вакуо́ль (ru) f (vakuólʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: vakùōla (sh) f
• Tagalog: lungkag
• Telugu: రిక్తిక (riktika)
• Turkish: koful (tr)
• Ukrainian: вакуо́ля (uk) f (vakuólja)