" vacuole "

[Noun]  | "vac*u*ole" | \ ˈva-kyə-ˌwōl \

1: a small cavity or space in the tissues of an organism containing air or fluid

2: a cavity or vesicle in the cytoplasm of a cell usually containing fluid

Origin: 1853 ;

 Borrowed from French, probably borrowed from New Latin vacuolum "little vacuum," from Medieval Latin vacuum {see: |vacuum:1|vacuum:1} + Latin -olum, variant of -ulum {see: |-ule|-ule} with stems ending in a vowel;

[Noun]  | "contractile vacuole" 

1: a vacuole in a unicellular organism that contracts regularly to discharge fluid and especially water from the cell

Origin: 1876 ;

[Noun]  | "food vacuole" 

1: a membrane-bound vacuole (as in an amoeba) in which ingested food is digested

Origin: 1875 ;