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acervate

English

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WOTD – 13 January 2010

Etymology

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From Latin acervātus, perfect passive participle of acervō (“heap or pile up”), from acervus (“heap”).[1][2]

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Adjective

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acervate (comparative more acervate, superlative most acervate)

  1. (chiefly botany, rare) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.
    • 1989, V[alayamghat] Raghavan, Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes‎[1], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 24:
      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).

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Verb

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acervate (third-person singular simple present acervates, present participle acervating, simple past and past participle acervated)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To heap up.
    Synonyms: heap, pile

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  1. ^ “acervate, adj.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “acervate, v.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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Latin

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Verb

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acervāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of acervō

Spanish

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Verb

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acervate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of acervar combined with te
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