tuberculate

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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)

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 Annandale, Nelson

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

Their outer surfaces are tuberculate; internally they commonly have a radiate fibrous structure.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

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.