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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Compare French tuberculé.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Conelets partly tuberculate or mucronate, partly mutic.

    The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892

  • But in 40 per cent. this tooth is quadri-tuberculate.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • The last lower molar (wisdom tooth) of the gibbon is like that of man, quadri-tuberculate.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • 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.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • 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.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • 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.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • 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.

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • 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

  • 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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