tuberculate
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of tuberculate
1775–85; < New Latin tūberculātus, equivalent to tūbercul ( um ) tubercle + -ātus -ate 1
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The skin on the dorsum is weakly tuberculate and that on the anterior part of the flanks is areolate.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.
Leaves often retuse; calyx-lobes obtuse in the bud; petals small or minute; style shorter, 3–4-cleft; seeds larger, sharply tuberculate; otherwise like the last.—Ark. to Tex. and westward; reported from Kan., Iowa, and Minn. 2.
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
Specimens from the Caribbean lowlands are less tuberculate, and most individuals from there lack rugosities on the tarsus.
From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.
Also, it is the least tuberculate species in the genus.
From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by Duellman, William E.
It is smooth, shining, the margin furrowed and tuberculate.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
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