acervate

US: (ə sûr′vit, -vāt, as′ər vāt′)

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a•cer•vate  (ə sûr′vit, -vāt, as′ər vāt′), adj. [Bot., Mycol.]

1. Fungi, Botany pertaining to growth, esp. of fungi, that forms a dense, heaped-up mass.

• Latin acervātus heaped up (past participle of acervāre), equivalent. to acerv(us) heap + -ātus -ate¹
• 1840–50

a•cer′vate•ly, adv.