Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The formation of tubercles; the disposition or arrangement of a set of tubercles; a tubercular part, organ, or system.
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- noun The formation of
tubercules
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Examples
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The rust is known as tuberculation, and when the flow goes as the tuberculation grows it doesn't stain the water.
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It might be mentioned, however, that Rake of Trinidad, 14.204 has performed circumcision 16 times, usually for phimosis due to leprous tuberculation of the prepuce.
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Rake of Trinidad, has performed circumcision 16 times, usually for phimosis due to leprous tuberculation of the prepuce.
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The peculiar shape of the wing, and tuberculation of the whorl, are thus proved to have grown but of a previously more conical form of shell.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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"As long as the water is flowing in the same direction as the tuberculation, there's no problem," Millhouse said.
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Its blunt rounded spire and the imperfect tuberculation especially of the upper whorls separate it not only from the fossil cones of Santo Domingo, but from all the species of the genus, with which I am ac - quainted.
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