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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vacuole \Vac"u*ole\, n. [L. vacuus empty: cf. F. vacuole.] (Biol.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm. [1913 Webster] Contractile vacuole. (Zool.) See under Contractile, and see Illusts. of Infusoria, and Lobosa. Food vacuole. (Zool.) See under Food, and see Illust. of Infusoria. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vacuole n 1: a tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacuole": Golgi apparatus, aster, basal body, cell membrane, central apparatus, central body, centriole, centroplasm, centrosome, centrosphere, chloroplast, chromoplast, cilia, cytocentrum, flagella, kinoplasm, microbody, microcentrum, mitochondrion, pili, plasmodesmata, plastid, plastosome, ribosome, spherosome, spindle fibers