Plural of bacca; in botany, small berry-like fruits or the individual berries in a cluster.
From Latin 'baca' meaning 'berry.' This is the Latin plural form often used in botanical Latin nomenclature and scientific descriptions to refer to multiple berry structures.
Botanical Latin keeps Latin plurals (like 'baccae' for berries, 'foliae' for leaves), which means botanists are still speaking like Romans when they describe plants—it's a language that's been dead for centuries but stays alive in science.
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