A protuberance or swelling on the body of an animal or plant; a convex or knob-like process or excrescent portion of an organ or structure; in 16th…

Any rounded or protuberant part of the body, as the swelling of the cheek, the pad of a finger, etc.

Anatomy and Zoology. A small rounded projection or protuberance on the surface of the body or a body part, esp. a bone or tooth. Frequently with…

= tubercle, n. (in various senses).

= tubercle, n. (in later use esp. in sense 1a).

concrete. A tuberous formation or part; a swelling, protuberance, prominence. Anatomy and Zoology: esp. a large irregular projection of a bone…

A small fleshy excrescence: applied in Anatomy to certain natural formations, as the lachrymal and urethral caruncles, the wattles of the…

Anatomy and Zoology. A small nipple-like protuberance on or in a part or organ of the body, as the kidney, skin, tongue, etc. Frequently with…

transferred. Anatomy. A roundish dilatation of any cylindrical organ or structure in an animal body, e.g. central bulb, ‘the bulbous extremity of a…

A rounded swelling or protuberant part in the animal body. Anatomy. A rounded projecting part or structure; a tuberosity.

A small breast-shaped protuberance (in quot. 1815, a spinneret of a spider); a small breast.

Anatomy, Botany, etc. Any nipple-shaped organ or protuberance; a papilla.

Chiefly Zoology. The property of being tuberculate (tuberculate, adj. 1); the form that this takes. Also (concrete): a tubercle (tubercle, n. 1); †a…

Botany, Conchology, Entomology. A wart-like formation, growth, or prominence.

Chiefly Palaeontology. A minute swelling or bump; spec. any of the low mounds formed at intervals on the surface of some stenolaemate bryozoan…

Zoology. A very small tubercle on a plate of an echinoderm.