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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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
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.
In the lower jaw the first premolar, instead of being small and tuberculate, as its corresponding tooth in the upper jaw, is large, double-fanged, trenchant and tri-lobed, resembling, except for size, the two following ones.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
Leaves opposite, on short petioles, not oblique, with stipular glands; stems dichotomously branched, erect; cymes terminal; involucres with 5 glands; seeds tuberculate.
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
Syrrhophus nivocolimae is the only species with tubercles along the outer edge of the tarsus; this is merely a reflection of the highly tuberculate nature of the skin in this species.
From A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope by Lynch, John D.
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