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A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.

Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

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

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

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

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers.

lunule. The caterpillars, when full- grown, have a grayish mottled appearance, with blue tubercles on the anterior and red tubercles on the posterior part of the body, all giving rise to long yellow and black hairs. They usually pupate in July and the moth appears in August. The eggs are laid on tree trunks, rocks, et…

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.

, 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 genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface.

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

A tubercle on any external part of the body.

e Silkworm family (Bombycidæ). Its larva, which is very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm.

rge ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.

having a calcareous coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in function. -- Sand cock (Zoöl.), the redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Sand collar. (Zoöl.) Same as Sand saucer, below. -- Sand crab. (Zoöl.) (a) The lady crab. (b) A land crab, or ocypodian. -- S…