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baccate

adj

Etymology

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

  1. derived from baccātus — “set or adorned with berries or pearls”

Definitions

  1. Pulpy throughout, like a berry

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baccate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA