tubercle
Meaning of tubercle
noun
- 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.
- A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
- 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:
Meaning tuberosity:
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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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