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tuberosity
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tuberosity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tuberosity has 1 sense
- tuberosity(n = noun.body) eminence, tubercle - a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament; Array has particulars: deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity
is a kind of appendage, outgrowth, process
Derived form adjective tuberous1
CIDE DICTIONARY
tuberosity, n. [Cf. F. tubérosité.].
- The state of being tuberous. [1913 Webster]
- An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
tuberosity
bas-relief, bellying, boldness, bulging, camber, convexedness, convexity, convexness, embossment, eminence, excrescence, excrescency, excurvation, excurvature, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, low relief, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, salience, salient, tuberousnessROGET THESAURUS
tuberosity
Convexity
N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).
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