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acervate

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a⋅cer⋅vate

  [uh-sur-vit, -veyt, as-er-veyt]
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–adjective Botany, Mycology.
pertaining to growth, esp. of fungi, that forms a dense, heaped-up mass.
Origin:
1840–50; < L acervātus heaped up (ptp. of acervāre), equiv. to acerv(us) heap + -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
a⋅cer⋅vate⋅ly, adverb
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acervate

adjective
pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass; "acervate fungous sporophores" 
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