a. [f. as prec. + -FORM.] Having the form of a tubercle.

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1817.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xxii. (1818), II. 277. Apodous larvæ … that move by means of fleshy tuberculiform … prominences.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 153. The body is covered with large tuberculiform suckers.

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1885.  H. O. Forbes, Nat. Wand. E. Archip., II. App. 120. At the hinder part … are several strong tuberculiform eminences and prominences.

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