tuberculate

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Leaves scale-shaped, somewhat 4-sided, closely overlapping, sharp-pointed, slightly tuberculate on the back; cones more or less clustered and nearly � in. long.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

CHARACTER.—Molars tuberculate; infra-orbital opening sub-typical, not much narrowed below, and the perpendicular plate little developed; large internal cheek pouches.—Alston.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

The skin on the dorsum is very weakly tuberculate.

From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.

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

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.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis