tuberculate

[too-bur-kyuh-lit, -leyt, tyoo-]

adjective

1. Also tuberculated, having tubercles.

2. tubercular.

tuberculate

/ tjʊˈbɜːkjʊlɪt /

adjective

1. covered with tubercles

Other Word Forms

• tuberculation noun
• tuberculately adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of tuberculate¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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Specimens from the White River in South Dakota, collected on July 7, 1934, include tuberculate males.

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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.

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

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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.

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