tubercle

Meaning of tubercle

noun
  1. A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
  2. A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
  3. A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

Information about tubercle

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of tubercle is: tubercles.
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Hyphenation of tubercle

tu-ber-cle

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • tubercle is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

tubercle synonyms

Meaning nodule:

nodule

Meaning tuberosity:

tuberosity, eminence

Meaning :

tubercule, tuberculum

Words that rhyme with tubercle

sarcle, anteopercle, cercle, covercle, interopercle, opercle, preopercle, pseudotubercle, subopercle, circle, circumcircle, demicircle, encircle, excircle, hemicircle, incircle, intercircle, recircle, semicircle, undercircle, corcle, surcle

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