different between baccate vs berried

English

Etymology

From Latin bacc?tus (“set or adorned with berries or pearls”), from bacca (“berry; pearl”).

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

bacc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of bacc?tus

English

Verb

berried

1. simple past tense and past participle of berry

Adjective

berried (comparative more berried, superlative most berried)

1. Bearing berries.
   • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 104:

     The kissing-bunch, of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.

   • 2013, David Williams, A Little Course in Wine Tasting (page 44)

     This style of wine uses small-berried, thick-skinned grapes which produce less juice than those used for crisp white wines, but with more concentration and weight.

2. Consisting of a berry; baccate.

   a berried shrub

Anagrams

• briered