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Webster 1913 Edition


Baccate

Bac′cate

,
Adj.
[L.
baccatus
, fr. L.
bacca
berry.]
(Bot.)
Pulpy throughout, like a berry; – said of fruits.
Gray.

Definition 2024


baccate

baccate

English

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