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tuberculate

[too-bur-kyuh-lit, -layt, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, tjʊ- /
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tubercular
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Seeds ash colored, obovoid, or globose, inconspicuously four-angled, base obtuse, irregularly tuberculate, 1 mm. or more long.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by W. J. (William James) Beal

Bunodont, bū′nō-dont, adj. having tuberculate molars—opp. to Lophodont.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Calyx, 5 rounded sepals, tuberculate at the base, imbricated, caducous.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas

Syrrhophus nivocolimae is the only species with tubercles along the outer edge of the tarsus; this is merely a reflection of the highly tuberculate nature of the skin in this species.

From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by John D. Lynch

C. Gillet, 7 shades: White; pink; ochraceous; yellow; ferruginous; black or purplish black; round, ovate, elongated, or fusiform, smooth, tuberculate or irregular, simple or composite, transparent or nebulous, etc.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor


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