tuberculate

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The skin on the dorsum is weakly tuberculate and that on the anterior part of the flanks is areolate.

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

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 Beal, W. J. (William James)

Their shape, almost always spherical in the young plant, becomes ovate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, reniform, smooth, stellate, sometimes tuberculate, or remains globose.

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

Many coarse hairs unite to form coarse tufts which are stouter and nearly erect toward the base of the cap, and give the surface a tuberculate appearance.

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

Plectrohyla hartwegi differs from all of these species, except pycnochila, by having a tuberculate, instead of a smooth, dorsum, and hartwegi differs from pycnochila by having a bifid, instead of a rectangular, prepollex.

From Descriptions of New Hylid Frogs From Mexico and Central America by Duellman, William E.