baccate

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7

Definition of baccate

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)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 […]”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)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. (not-comparable)Looking like a berry.
  3. (not-comparable)Producing berries.

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Etymology

From Latin baccātus (“set or adorned with berries or pearls”), from bacca (“berry; pearl”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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