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

Calyx, 5 rounded sepals, tuberculate at the base, imbricated, caducous.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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

C. Gillet, 7 shades: White; pink; ochraceous; yellow; ferruginous; black or purplish black; round, ovate, elongated, or fusiform, smooth, tuberculate or irregular, simple or composite, transparent or nebulous, etc.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

In these the rough tuberculate epispore splits on one side, and its internal coat elongates itself and protrudes as a tube filled with protoplasm and oil globules, terminating in an ordinary sporangium.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The skin of the dorsum is thick and glandular, but not tuberculate.

From A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group by Duellman, William E.