Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Resembling a berry in texture or form; berrylike.
- adj. Bearing berries.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Pulpy throughout, like a berry; said of fruits. Asa Gray.
- adj. Looking like a berry
- adj. Producing berries
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. resembling a berry
- adj. producing or bearing berries
Etymologies
- From Latin baccātus ("set or adorned with berries or pearls"), from bacca ("berry; pearl"). (Wiktionary)
- From Latin bacca, berry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Because of this hegemony, many faculty on the left have softened into baccate self-caricatures, unable to tolerate dissent, and unwilling to think hard enough to justify their own positions.”
“Schlechtendal describes [540] the ordinarily baccate fruit of a vine as becoming dry, and even dehiscing by valves like a capsule.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Woods entirely of A. densa, with a small baccate-like deciduous leaved tree.”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘baccate’.
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cc
impeccable, accouterment, accoutrement, cc, access, baccivorous, desiccant, floccular, successor, occidental, laccolithic, laccolith and 143 more...
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
blandish, blazon, blench, blendling, blendure, blewit, blunge, blype, borné, borsella, borzoi, boscage and 582 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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Shape Words
shapely adjectives and descriptors
clithridiate, botryose, fimbriate, filiciform, plumaceous, rhipidate, auriculate, belemnoid, cirriform, scyphate, falcate, cortinate and 127 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
maxwell, mooncalf, quagga, glaikit, musquash, lingam, haruspex, qindarka, chthonic, ipomoea, azimuthal, valuta and 304 more...
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To Learn
paratonnerre, apophenia, aposiopesis, compline, rebarbatiive, comity, averruncate, apodictic, apophasis, farouche, accismus, abligurition and 157 more...
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biology
the APG II phylogenetic classification plus various other new biological terms (new to me or just newly invented)
lamiids, campanulids, fabids, malvids, euangiosperms, nipplewort, redshank, selfheal, weigela, hebe, basalmost, echeveria and 58 more...
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hilart's list
oodle, tat, crock, poious, collateral, mush, tryst, shit, crass, sassy, sucks, bored and 20 more...
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Key it out
Recalling words from Botany 3something--Taxonomy
abaxial, umbel, erose, campanulate, dehiscence, achene, inflorescence, pinnate, palmate, perianth, orbicular, baccate and 33 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for baccate.
bilby Looks like one of those left-hand only words. Oct 11, 2008
fbharjo berry nice Feb 1, 2007