baccate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin baccātus (“set or adorned with berries or pearls”), from bacca (“berry; pearl”).
Adjective edit
baccate (not comparable)
- (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 […]
- 1848, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia
- Looking like a berry.
- Producing berries.
References edit
- baccate, The Free Dictionary.
Latin edit
Participle edit
baccāte