Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bot., zoöl., and pathology, tuberculate; provided with or affected by tubercles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate.
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- adjective Having, or affected with,
tubercles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are 25 species of amphibians and 42 species of reptiles, a comparatively small number for the Amazon Basin, but the yellow-spotted river turtle (VU), six-tubercled river turtle (VU) and South American river turtle are found as are the yellow-footed tortoise (VU), black and yellow caiman.
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In the core area there have been recorded 34 species of frogs and toads, 3 worm-salamanders, 15 lizards, 10 snakes, yellow-footed tortoise (VU) which lives there year-round, 6 freshwater turtles including six tubercled river turtle (VU), yellow-spotted river turtle (VU) and South American river turtle and at least two caimans, black and yellow.
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Threatened reptiles are terrestrial yellow-footed tortoise Geochelone denticulata (VU), ten freshwater turtles including the six tubercled river turtle Podocnemis sextuberculata (VU), yellow-spotted river turtle P. unifilis (VU) and South American river turtle P. expansa.
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-- Stem erect, cylindrical, even below, channelled and tubercled above, about 2 in. in diameter.
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-- A short, dumpy plant, with numerous tubercled ridges, bearing bunches of dark brown hair-like spines, which form a close network about the stem.
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The grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, broadly and shallowly grooved dorsally with concentric minute tubercled ridges covered with a loose pericarp.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _second glume_ is broadly ovate-lanceolate, concave, acuminate, short awned, 5-nerved with two partial nerves one on each side of the central nerve (7 - to 9-nerved at the tip), hairs on nerves, a few tubercled.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The botanist who founded the genus gives the following general description of its members: Stems tall, erect, thick, simple or branched, fleshy, ridged; the ridges regular, slightly tubercled, and placed closely together.
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-- This is another small, tubercled species, which, like the preceding, is a native of
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-- Stem robust, glaucous-green; ridges about eight, broad, prominent, obscurely tubercled; spines in bundles of nine, radiating, straight, less than 1 in. long, and pale yellow.
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