tuberculate

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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

In these the rough tuberculate epispore splits on one side, and its internal coat elongates itself and protrudes as a tube filled with protoplasm and oil globules, terminating in an ordinary sporangium.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Specimens from the Caribbean lowlands are less tuberculate, and most individuals from there lack rugosities on the tarsus.

From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.

Skin on dorsal surfaces finely tuberculate; that on throat, chest, belly, and ventral surfaces of thighs granular, that on ventral surfaces of arms and shanks smooth.

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

The western form has more rigid leaves and more tuberculate and spiny cones.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa