Noun: vacuole
| Singular | vacuole |
| Plural | vacuoles |
Sample Sentences
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This surface itself was not entirely homogeneous, but beneath it, seen as through ground glass, there were dim whitish patches or vacuoles, which varied constantly in shape and size. [1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:]
Nouns inflected like vacuole
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French vacuole, from Medieval Latin vacuola, formed as a diminutive of Latin vacuus (“empty”). See: French Nouns '
vacuole', Latin Nouns '
vacuus'.