tuberculate, a. Nat. Hist. and Path.
(tjuːˈbɜːkjʊlət)
[ad. mod.L. tūberculātus, f. L. tūbercul-um tubercle: see -ate2.]
Furnished or affected with tubercles; tubercled.
| 1785 Martin Rousseau's Bot. xxxii. (1794) 497 The Tuberculate [Lichens], consisting of a crust adhering closely to the bark of trees, or stones, above which roundish tubercles rise a little. 1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 454 A thick, rugose, livid, tuberculate..skin. 1875 C. C. Blake Zool. 27 The molar teeth are usually tuberculate. 1887 W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 57 The tuberculate sporidia are frequently furnished with thread-like appendages at the extremities. |
b. In comb. with another adj. (in Bot.), as tuberculate-hispid, hispid or rough with tubercles.
| 1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 102 Petioles and stem tuberculate-hispid. |