nodulousadj.
/ˈnɒdjᵿləs/, /ˈnɒdʒᵿləs/, U.S. /ˈnɑdʒələs/ = nodulose adj.; (also) causing nodules. Also figurative.
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nodous1646
tuberous1650
papillar1651
verrucous1656
capitate1661
clavate1661
papillary1667
warty1693
tuberculated1696
papillous1718
tubercular1719
clavated1728
tuberculous1732
mammillated1744
tubercled1746
papillose1752
torulous1752
tuberculose1752
tuberculate1777
tubercle-like1792
mastoid1800
tuberculiferous1802
ventricose1804
torulose1806
papillated?a1808
tuberculiform1817
bullated1822
nodulous1822
tuberiform1822
nodulated1824
papilliform1824
mammular1826
papilliferous1826
nodulose1828
knuckled1842
mamelonated1843
tuberculoid1853
papillate1857
mammilloid1859
tuberculosquamous1866
bosselated1873
papulate1876
bulbar1878
tubero-cystic1879
mammulose1889
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 206 Spire pyramidal, with nine rows of short nodulous ribs.
?1841 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 271 The ribs..[are] sometimes only to be traced in a nodulous line along the suture.
1850 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. App. i. 728 Whorls of the spire angulated and nodulous in the middle.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. Feb. 183/3 Diamonds are found there in two qualities of soil: first, in the surface sand; and second, in a whitey-gray, nodulous, limey earth.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. I. 318/1 Browning is often harsh, hard, crabbed, and nodulous to the last degree.
1957 Science 1 Mar. 399/2 He suggested the presence of a nodulous bacteria, but he was unable to find nodules on the roots.
1997 Jrnl. Morphol. 233 105 Both species have gill arches with nodulous gill-rakers equipped with sharp denticles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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