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The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers, native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; the earth almond.

of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

ion. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-conv…

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.

Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]

A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.

; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

Pertaining to that which is distal; as, the distal tuberosities of a bone.

The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to:

The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.