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Tuberosity

noun
(pl. tuberosities)
1.
A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament.  Synonyms: eminence, tubercle.



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"Tuberosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... employing as a veneer for covering others are the citrus, the terebinth, the different varieties of the maple, the box, the palm, the holly, the holm oak, the root of the elder, and the poplar. The alder furnishes, also, a kind of tuberosity, which is cut into layers like those of the citrus and the maple. In all the other trees, the tuberosities are of no value whatever. It is the central part of trees that is most variegated, and the nearer ...
— Intarsia and Marquetry • F. Hamilton Jackson



Words linked to "Tuberosity" :   deltoid eminence, tuberous, outgrowth, appendage, process



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