Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To heap up.
- In botany, heaped; growing in heaps, or in closely compacted clusters.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To heap up.
- adj. Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass
Etymologies
- From Latin acervātus, perfect passive participle of acervō ("heap or pile up"), from acervus ("heap"). (Wiktionary)
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To Pile or Heap Up or Form a Mass
Verbs meaning to form a pile, heap or mass
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
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Heaped; Resembling or Related to a Pi...
Words meaning heaped, or "resembling or related to a pile or heap"
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Zoological Terms
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Botanical Terms
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To Grow, Enlarge or Increase
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reesetee growing in a dense, heaped-up mass (referring to fungi) Jun 12, 2007