Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a tubercle in form; tubercular.
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- adjective Resembling a
tubercule .
Etymologies
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tubercule + -iform
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Examples
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The first premolar, situated behind, a little within the line of the canine, is very small, tuberculiform, and a little compressed laterally.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Yutacan and Guatemala; _boas_, the _crested basilic_ and the _horrible heloderme_, a great lizard with tuberculiform scales, should be sent us.
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