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tuberculate

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

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 Cross, Frank B.

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

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

Fruit bristly or tuberculate, with rather prominent equal ribs.

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




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