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单词 acervate
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acervateadj.

Brit. /əˈsəːvət/, /ˈasəveɪt/, U.S. /əˈsərvət/, /ˈæsərˌveɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin acervātus, acervāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin acervātus, past participle of acervāre acervate v.
Botany and Zoology.
Heaped; growing in heaps or closely compacted clusters.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > arranged in group or cluster
tufted1629
agminated1811
agminate1842
acervate1846
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 293 The spines, in adult specimens, often acervate.
1937 Science 2 Apr. 333/2 The genus is next to Thrinax, but with several diagnostic characters, the massive columnar trunk, often more than a foot in diameter, acervate radicels, [etc.].
1991 Mycologia 83 222 Chlamydospores in masses (acervate).

Derivatives

acervately adv. Obsolete rare
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > accumulatively > so as to form a heap or pile > in or by heaps
hipplemeala1382
acervately1846
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 358 Cells at summit acervately proliferous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

acervatev.

Brit. /ˈasəːveɪt/, U.S. /ˈæsərˌveɪt/
Forms: 1600s aceruate, 1900s– acervate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin acervāt-, acervāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin acervāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of acervāre to make into heaps, pile up < acervus heap (see acervulus n.). Compare earlier acervation n. and also coacervate v.
rare.
transitive. To form into a mass; to pile up in a heap. Also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps
wholec1443
consolidate1511
clod1530
thicken?1578
contract1620
acervate1623
lump1624
bundlea1628
club1641
to lump together (occasionally up)1692
commassate1694
slump1822
pack1824
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > heap or pile up
heapc1000
ruck?c1225
ruckle?c1225
givelc1300
upheap1469
binga1522
pilec1540
copa1552
bank1577
hill1581
plet1584
conglomerate1596
acervate1623
coacervate1623
tilea1643
aggest1655
coacerve1660
pyramida1666
aggerate1693
big1716
bepilea1726
clamp1742
bulk1822
pang1898
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Aceruate, to mough up.
1711 G. Warren New Method curing Venereal Dis. (ed. 2) vi. 58 Whenever it meets with Channels so minute as not to admit it, it must stop there, and by the addition of new Matter be acervated in the form of a Tumour.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Acervate.
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Acervate, to heap together.]
1927 P. Nixon Martial & Mod. Epigram 190 But his most grotesque piece of accumulated, acervated, agglomerated exaggeration is perhaps his description of the estate given him by Lupus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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