a. Nat. Hist. [f. TORULA + -OSE (after L. type *torulōsus): cf. mod.F. toruleux.] Having at intervals small rounded swollen parts, as a stem, pod, tube, antenna.
1806. J. Galpine, Brit. Bot., § 309. Arabis…. Silique linear, torulose.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvi. 325. Torulose…. When they [joints of the antennæ] are a little tumid.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 154. Thickened slightly at the articulations (torulose).
1887. W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 103. The paraphyses were septate, and nearly torulose at the upper part.
So Torulous a., in same sense.
1752. J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 11. The Brachionus, with a conic torulous body.
1860. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Torulosus,… swelled, or bulged out in a slight degree here and there, like knotted cord: torulous.
