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nodose, a.|nəʊˈdəʊs|
[ad. L. nōdōs-us: see node n. and -ose.]
Knotty; knotted or knobbed; furnished with, or characterized by, knot-like swellings.
1721Bailey, Nodose, knotty, full of knots. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 580 The Capra, with nodose horns, bending towards the back, the Ibex. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 165 A plaster compress,..with the well adapted nodose bandage. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 274 The head of the thread-worm is subulate, nodose and divided into three vesicles. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 504 Branches..often irregularly inflated or nodose. 1880V. L. Cameron Future Highway II. xii. 263, I found the horn of a male [mountain sheep]..which was recurved, flattened, and nodose. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 48 The nodules may coalesce into large irregular, nodose, or flattened masses.
transf.1880Blackmore Mary Anerley III. iii. 38 His enemy arose slowly with grunts, and action nodose and angular, rather than flexibly graceful. |