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ACERVATE
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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
Sense 1
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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