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ACERVATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does acervate mean?

• ACERVATE (adjective)
The adjective ACERVATE has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass

Familiarity information: ACERVATE used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ACERVATE (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

acervate fungous sporophores

Pertainym:

acervulus (small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi)

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