a. Nat. Hist. and Path. [ad. mod.L. tūberculātus, f. L. tūbercul-um TUBERCLE: see -ATE2.] Furnished or affected with tubercles; tubercled.

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1785.  Martyn, 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.

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1834.  Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), IV. 454. A thick, rugose, livid, tuberculate … skin.

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1875.  C. C. Blake, Zool., 27. The molar teeth are usually tuberculate.

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1887.  W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 57. The tuberculate sporidia are frequently furnished with thread-like appendages at the extremities.

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  b.  In comb. with another adj. (in Bot.), as tuberculate-hispid, hispid or rough with tubercles.

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1821.  W. P. C. Barton, Flora N. Amer., I. 102. Petioles and stem tuberculate-hispid.

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