acervate

English

WOTD – 13 January 2010

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæs.ə.veɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæs.ɚ.veɪt/

Adjective

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).

Derived terms

• acervately

Translations

heaped or growing in heaps

• Finnish: kimppuina kasvava
• Latin: acervātus

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To heap up.

   Synonyms: heap, pile

Translations

to heap up

• Finnish: kimputtaa
• Latin: acervō
• Portuguese: acervar (pt)

Related terms

• acerval
• coacervate

Anagrams

• revacate

Latin

Verb

acervāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of acervō

Spanish

Verb

acervate

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