UTRICLE

[utri.cle] n [L utriculus, dim. of uter leather bag] (1731): any of various small pouches or saccate parts of an animal or plant body: as a: the part of the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear into which the semicircular canals open b: a small usu. indehiscent one-seeded fruit with thin membranous pericarp -- utric.u.lar adj