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Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More.

A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat. Tennyson.

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.

color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

derms, through which water is admitted to the ambulacral tubes; -- called also madreporic tubercule.

A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. Westmin. Rev.

vex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.

, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See Illust. under Cactus.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.

A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story. [Colloq.]

so chestnut coal. -- Nut crab (Zoöl.), any leucosoid crab of the genus Ebalia as, Ebalia tuberosa of Europe. -- Nut grass (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fiel…

A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.