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Definition of Baccate
1. Adjective. Resembling a berry.
2. Adjective. Producing or bearing berries.
Definition of Baccate
1. a. Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.
Definition of Baccate
1. Adjective. (botany) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; said of fruits. ''Asa Gray''. ¹
2. Adjective. Looking like a berry ¹
3. Adjective. Producing berries ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baccate
1. pulpy like a berry [adj]
Medical Definition of Baccate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Baccate
Literary usage of Baccate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Fruit baccate: seeds thick, undulate, with ruminate albumen: leaves ... baccate,
dark purple, ovate to cylindrical, 2 to 5 inches long, beaked : seeds often ..."
2. A Treatise on Food and Diet: With Observations on the Dietetical Regimen by Jonathan Pereira (1843)
"baccate OR BERRIED FRUITS. Berries.—To this division belong the Currant, the
Gooseberry, Ihe Whortleberry, the Cranberry, the Elderberry, and the Grape ..."
3. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"A climbing evergreen shrub, with a few short simple .hooked tendrils ; fruit
baccate, of a pleasant orange colour, as big as a cherry, one-seeded, ..."
4. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... ed towards the top : stigma capitate, very shortly 2-lobed : drupe baccate,
4-stoned, stones when ripe distinct, 1-celled, putamen hard : seed erect. ..."
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