bacca

American  

[bak-uh] / ˈbæk ə /

noun

Botany.

• baccae
  plural

1. a berry.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• baccae
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bacca

From the Latin word bacca, bāca “olive, any round fruit, berry”

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Example Sentences

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bacca

Tobacco may be an evil weed to some, but to the farmers who grow it, "bacca" has long been manna.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wot I wants," growled the Reserve man, "is to over-'aul a bacca factory afire, and clap my mouth to 'er chimbley-shaft.

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan

“No, sir,” answered the man, “my trade is a tailor, but I have chawed bacca from my infancy.”

From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan

Sal Simmons kept a little shop,    An bacca seld, an spice, An traitle drink, an ginger pop,    An other things as nice.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by John Hartley

You sho' saved our lives that time, partner," he cried; "we done forgot the bacca when we wus getting up our supplies, an' didn't find it out until we'd come too far to go back.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis

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