| 单词 | tubercle |
| 释义 | tubercle (once / 3274 pages) n WORD FAMILY tubercle: tubercles, tubercular, tuberculous+/tubercular: tuberculars USAGE EXAMPLESHe called it the "tubercle effect" and founded a company called the Whalepower Corporation, to improve the efficiency of fans, turbines, compressors and pumps. BBC(Nov 30, 2015) It belongs to a group of rodentlike mammals called multituberculates, named for the numerous cusps, or tubercles, found on their teeth. Scientific American(Oct 05, 2015) The lumps—called tubercles—are likely a defense against predators. National Geographic(Aug 11, 2015) 1n small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant Syn|Hyper nodule enation, plant process a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ 2n a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament Syn|Hypo|Hyper eminence, tuberosity deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity a bump on the outside of the humerus where the deltoid muscle attaches appendage, outgrowth, process a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant 3n a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis Hyper lesion any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part |
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