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Definition of "tuberculate" []

  • Having or affected with tubercles. (adjective)
  • Tubercular. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "tuberculate" in a sentence
  • "Bixads, and allied to MELICYTUS, but with hermaphrodite flowers. 158 A submerged plant, in the water, was found to be a new species of MYRIOPHYLLUM, with tuberculate fruit. 159 CASSIA"
  • "Conelets partly tuberculate or mucronate, partly mutic."
  • "The three big molars of the upper jaw are closely similar to those of man, with some small differences, the second being quadri-tuberculate, whilst in man it is as often tri-tuberculate (as it is in Pl. VI) as it is quadri-tuberculate."
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