Definition of Nodulose

1. Adjective. Having minute nodules.

Similar to: Unshapely

Definition of Nodulose

1. a. Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Definition of Nodulose

1. Adjective. (mycology) having nodules. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nodulose

1. nodule [adj] - See also: nodule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodulose

nodular transformation of the liver
nodular tuberculid
nodular vasculitis
nodularity
nodulate
nodulated
nodulates
nodulating
nodulation
nodulations
nodule
nodule of semilunar valve
noduled
nodules
nodulin
nodulose (current term)
nodulous
nodulus
nodulus caroticus
nodulus lymphaticus
nodulus valvulae semilunaris
nodus
nodus atrioventricularis
nodus buccinatorius
nodus cysticus
nodus fibularis
nodus foraminalis
nodus jugulo-omohyoideus
nodus jugulodigastricus
nodus lacunaris intermedius

Literary usage of Nodulose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... without annular or spiral fibers, those in the apical region with trigones or sometimes exhibiting] irregular nodulose thickenings in the lateral walls. ..."

2. Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology by Geological Survey of Canada (1898)
"Volutions about five, the two apical ones obliquely compressed, the third and fourth angulated both above and below, and encircled with two distant nodulose ..."

3. Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand: With Diagnoses of the Species by Dominion Museum (N.Z.), Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1873)
"Fusiform ; whorls spirally striated, those of the spire carinated, and crossed by low transverse ribs ; keel sub-nodulose ; body whorl convex, ..."

4. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"They are cylindrical, with or without inflations on either side of the constriction, or they may be nodulose along their entire length. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1901)
"The posterior slope has four or five radiating ridges, which at first are smooth, but soon become nodulose, the most posterior ones being the first to ..."

6. Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Iowa: Embracing the Results by James Hall, Josiah Dwight Whitney (1858)
"Surface outside the annulation marked by a somewhat flattened elevation, and between this and the nodulose rim distinctly concave. Spines round, of moderate ..."

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