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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
swellings, full of; see swollen;

apophysatus,-a,-um (adj.A), provided with apophyses;

colliculosus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘beset with little rounded or hillock-like elevations or swellings;’

ganglioneus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘with knot-like swellings;’

gangliosus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘full of swellings, knots;’

nodulosus,-a,-um (adj.A): nodulose, full of small knobs or knots; in bryophytes, “with nodular thickenings; minutely knobbed; sometimes referred to intracellular wall thickening, e.g., Racomitrium” (Magill 1990);

pustulatus,-a,-um (adj.A), pustulosus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘having pustules or pimplelike protuberances

torosus,-a,-um (adj.A), also torulosus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘cylindrical with bulges or contractions at intervals, knotted, with knots or nodes; having the surface covered with rounded prominences, knobbed;’

tuberculatus,-a,-um (adj.A): full of small swellings.

tuberosus,-a,-um (adj.A), full of swellings.

tumidosus,-a,-um (adj.A), full of swellings; tumorosus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘full of tumors; inflated, bloated;’

utriculifer,-fera,-ferum (adj.A), ‘utriculiferous, bearing utricles.

varicosus,-a,-um (adj.A): abnormally enlarged in places.

verrucatus,-a,-um (adj.A), verrucosus,-a,-um (adj.A): warty.

verruculosus,-a,-um (adj.A): covered with small wart-like outgrowths.

 

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