Tuberculate

(1) Tuberculate [ Botany ]
Synonym: Tuberculated, tubercular
Adverb: Tuberculately
Noun: Tuberculation

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

Covered or affected with small rounded warts, protuberances or nodules (tubercles)

A surface feature that can be found on many organs of a plant. The word tuberculate is formed from the Latin word “tuberculum” “a small tuber” and means covered or affected with small rounded warts, protuberances or nodules (tubercles)

Tuberculate is about the same as verrucose. (Verrucose = tuberculate = warty)

Left: The tuberculate stem of Pseudolithos migiurtinus

(2) Tuberculate [ Botany ]

A plant stem covered with tubercles or podaria, a ball-shaped cactus.

Left: A tuberculate cactus stem (Mammillaria camptotricha forma brevispina)

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