noduledadj.
/ˈnɒdjuːld/, /ˈnɒdʒuːld/, /ˈnɒdʒᵿld/, U.S. /ˈnɑdʒuld/ Characterized by or having nodules.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [adjective] > concretionary or modular
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nodular1794
globuliferous1863
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 398 As you now dissect with hammers fine The granite-rock, the nodul'd flint calcine.
1860 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. (new ed.) 600 Their walls are composed of expanded bone..thickened and noduled at various parts.
1899 Amer. Naturalist 33 140 The metacarpals..are grotesquely noduled at the proximal end.
1993 Independent on Sunday 7 Nov. 9/2 They wanted to make use of the ‘self-massage’ properties of the noduled rubber.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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