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bacca

bacca

9.9
A soft, fleshy fruit like a grape or tomato that does not open when ripe
  • noun
  • /ˈbækə/
  • Specialized
: baya
  • The tomato is classified as a bacca in botanical terms.

Examples

  • Some fruits commonly called berries, like the grape, are actually a bacca.

  • The bacca is sweet and juicy.

  • In botany, a cranberry is an example of a bacca.

  • Tomatoes are a type of bacca commonly used in salads.

  • The farmer harvested ripe bacca from the vineyard, ensuring they would be ready for the market.

  • During our stroll, we picked a few bacca from the vine, savoring their sweet flavor.

  • She prepared a delicious salad using fresh bacca and other colorful fruits.

Synonyms

simple fruit
vsbacca
  • Specialized
1 6.0

A fruit that grows from one part of a flower with seeds inside, like a grape

is the fleshy non splitting form developing from a single ovary

How Fleshy

berry
142 1.0
bacca
  • Specialized
9.9
dried fruit
10 1.0

Surface Forms

bacca singular
baccas plural

Etymology

The word bacca comes from Latin bacca, which means 'berry' and is the same root as the English word berry. So in botany a bacca is a soft fruit that stays whole and does not split open, like a grape or tomato, which makes the origin easy to remember.