[ad. mod.L. acetārium, f. acēt-um vinegar + -arium receptacle; see -ARY.] ‘An acid pulpy substance in certain fruits, as the pear, inclosed in a congeries of small calculous bodies towards the base of the fruit.’ Craig, 1847.
1674. Grew, Anat. Plants, I. vi. (1682), 41. Within this lies the Acetary; ’tis allways sour, and by the bounding of the Calculary of a Globular Figure. Ibid., IV. ii. § 5. 183. I have taken leave to name it the Acetary.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., The quince also has an Acetary, resembling, tho’ less than, that of a pear.
