baccate

English

Etymology

From Latin baccātus (“set or adorned with berries or pearls”), from bacca (“berry; pearl”).

Adjective

baccate (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; said of fruits.
    • 1848, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia
      […] pericarp drupaceous, or baccate, 1—4 nuts (pyrena), which are sometimes enclosed in an utricular membrane […]
  2. Looking like a berry.
  3. Producing berries.

References

Latin

Participle

baccāe

  1. vocative masculine singular of baccāus
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