aggregate
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- adjective
- /ˈæɡrɪɡət/
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- Blackberries are an example of an aggregate fruit, with many tiny drupelets clustered together.
Examples
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Raspberries are classified as aggregate fruits since they are formed from multiple small units called drupelets.
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The pinecone is an aggregate structure that consists of many individual scale-like segments.
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Our editors are our aggregate assemblage of friends and acquaintances.
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His is an aggregate perspective—holistic, in a sense.
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Benthic infaunal species also aggregate, possibly because detritus distribution is not uniform or because different types of detritus might attract different types of species.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
Made by combining several separate amounts into one total
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Compounds
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The total amount that people, businesses, and the government want to buy in a country at one time
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The total amount of money available to people and businesses in a country, including cash and bank deposits
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A fruit made of many small fruits that form from one flower, like blackberries
How Aggregated
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Etymology
Aggregate comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and grex ('flock' or 'group'), so it carries the image of many things close together. In biology, an aggregate fruit or flower is a cluster of small parts that have been 'brought together', like the many little drupelets of a raspberry.