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

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

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

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.

Also, it is the least tuberculate species in the genus.

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