baccate

English

Etymology

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

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

• baccate, The Free Dictionary.

Latin

Participle

baccāte

1. vocative masculine singular of baccātus