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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The spores are tawny in mass, oval, elliptical, minutely tuberculate when mature, 6–9 × 4–6 µ.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
Specimens from the Caribbean lowlands are less tuberculate, and most individuals from there lack rugosities on the tarsus.
From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by Juan R. león
Their shape, almost always spherical in the young plant, becomes ovate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, reniform, smooth, stellate, sometimes tuberculate, or remains globose.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
Incisors, 4/6 or 6/6; the lower ones slanted; the canines large and curved outwards and upwards; molars tuberculate; four toes on each foot—that is, two major and two minor, each hoofed.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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 William E. Duellman
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