tuberculate

American  

[too-bur-kyuh-lit, -leyt, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kyə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, tyʊ- /

adjective

1. Also tuberculated, having tubercles.

2. tubercular.

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tuberculate British  

/ tjʊˈbɜːkjʊlɪt /

adjective

1. covered with tubercles

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Other Word Forms

• tuberculately adverb
• tuberculation noun

Etymology

Origin of tuberculate

1775–85; < New Latin tūberculātus, equivalent to tūbercul ( um ) tubercle + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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)

Pod flattened contrary to the narrow partition; the two cells indehiscent and falling away at maturity from the partition as closed nutlets, strongly wrinkled or tuberculate, 1 seeded.

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

Leaves scale-shaped, somewhat 4-sided, closely overlapping, sharp-pointed, slightly tuberculate on the back; cones more or less clustered and nearly � in. long.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

The western form has more rigid leaves and more tuberculate and spiny cones.

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

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