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tuberculate

[too-bur-kyuh-lit, -leyt, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, tjʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
tubercular
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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

Pod flattened contrary to the narrow partition; the two cells indehiscent and falling away at maturity from the partition as closed nutlets, strongly wrinkled or tuberculate, 1 seeded.

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

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 George Francis Atkinson

Specimens of H. g. gulonella collected in the Arkansas River at Pueblo and Florence, Colorado, on September 7, 1959, include some tuberculate males, although most females are spent.

From Geographic Variation in the North American Cyprinid Fish, Hybopsis gracilis by Frank B. Cross

The ectocyst is colourless or faintly tinted with brown; as a rule it is not quite hyaline and the external surface is minutely roughened or tuberculate.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale




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