acervate meaning (rare): definition, etymology and quotations

acervate

adj

UK /ˈæs.ə.veɪt/ · US /ˈæs.ɚ.veɪt/

Etymology From Latin acervātus, perfect passive participle of acervō (“heap or pile up”), from acervus (“heap”).

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Rare Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

Later, the megaspore becomes fully engorged with cytoplasm and accumulates an acervate complex of storage products such as lipids, starch and protein bodies (Fig. 2.4).1989, V[alayamghat] Raghavan, Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 24:

verb

Etymology From Latin acervātus, perfect passive participle of acervō (“heap or pile up”), from acervus (“heap”).

Obsolete To heap up.