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baccate

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bac·cate  (bkt)
adj.
1. Resembling a berry in texture or form; berrylike.
2. Bearing berries.
[From Latin bacca, berry.]
baccate [ˈbækeɪt]
adj Botany
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) like a berry in form, texture, etc
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) bearing berries
[from Latin bāca berry]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.baccate - resembling a berry
berrylike
2.baccate - producing or bearing berries
bacciferous, berried
fruitful - productive or conducive to producing in abundance; "be fruitful and multiply"
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Violaceae This family is characterized by baccate and capsular fruits.
Phylogenetic distribution and identification of fin-winged fruits by Manchester, Steven R.; O'Leary, Elizabeth L. / The Botanical Review
With these new insights, the Miconieae now comprise approximately 1,800 species m 19-23 genera, forming a large and exclusively Neotropical elade characterized by flowers with inferior or partly inferior ovaries that develop into baccate fruits, stamens with no or only poorly developed connective appendages, and the absence of megastyloids and imbricate bracts at the base of the flowers.
Multiple events of dispersal and radiation of the tribe Miconieae ... by Michelangeli, Fabian A.; Judd, Walter S.; Penneys, Darin S.; Skean, J. Dan, Jr.; Becquer-Granados, E / The Botanical Review
 
 
 
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