Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or affected with tubercles.
- adjective Tubercular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
tubercular .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tubercled; tubercular.
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- adjective Having
tubercles - adjective
Tubercular
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- adjective covered with tubercles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bixads, and allied to MELICYTUS, but with hermaphrodite flowers. 158 A submerged plant, in the water, was found to be a new species of MYRIOPHYLLUM, with tuberculate fruit. 159 CASSIA
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Conelets partly tuberculate or mucronate, partly mutic.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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But in 40 per cent. this tooth is quadri-tuberculate.
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The last lower molar (wisdom tooth) of the gibbon is like that of man, quadri-tuberculate.
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The first, or most anterior pre-molar of the lower jaw has one predominant cusp or cone; the second, like both in the upper jaw, is "bicuspid," or bi-tuberculate, as in man.
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But the two anterior big molars of the lower jaw are seen to have each five well-marked cones, cusps or tubercles; they are quinqui-tuberculate, whilst in man the first lower molar is often quadri-tuberculate and the second even more frequently so.
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The three big molars of the upper jaw are closely similar to those of man, with some small differences, the second being quadri-tuberculate, whilst in man it is as often tri-tuberculate (as it is in Pl. VI) as it is quadri-tuberculate.
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The second and third molars of the upper jaw have three such prominent tubercles (excluding a row of small tubercles on the hinder margin of the second); they are, in fact, tri-tuberculate; whilst the two hindermost molars of the lower jaw have four tubercles and are called quadri-tuberculate.
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It is somewhat viscid when moist, and the margin is very thin and strongly striate and tuberculate, i. e., the ridges between the marginal furrows are tuberculate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The = spores = are yellowish in mass, faintly yellow under the microscope, strongly echinulate or tuberculate, globose, 6 -- 10 µ.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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