bacca

1. 1.

   an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry

   Synonymssimple fruit

   Broaderberry

Other forms of bacca

plural

baccas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bacca

What does bacca mean?

bacca means "an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry".

How many syllables are in bacca?

bacca has 2 syllables: bac-ca. The stress falls on "bac".

What is another word for bacca?

Close synonyms include simple fruit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bacca a common word?

bacca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.