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tuberculate

[too-bur-kyuh-lit, -leyt, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, tjʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
tubercular
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Leaves opposite, on short petioles, not oblique, with stipular glands; stems dichotomously branched, erect; cymes terminal; involucres with 5 glands; seeds tuberculate.

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 Asa Gray

The skin on the dorsum is very weakly tuberculate.

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

The plants densely covered above with delicate ashy-gray spines and with naked tuberculate base are readily recognized.

From North American Species of Cactus by John Merle Coulter

Incisors, 4/6 or 6/6; the lower ones slanted; the canines large and curved outwards and upwards; molars tuberculate; four toes on each foot—that is, two major and two minor, each hoofed.

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

In the lower jaw the first premolar, instead of being small and tuberculate, as its corresponding tooth in the upper jaw, is large, double-fanged, trenchant and tri-lobed, resembling, except for size, the two following ones.

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




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