Tuberosity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tuberosity \Tu`ber*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Tuberosities}. [Cf. F.
     tub['e]rosit['e].]
     1. The state of being tuberous.
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     2. An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tuberosity
       n : a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a
           muscle or ligament [syn: {tubercle}, {eminence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuberosity":
     bas-relief, bellying, boldness, bulging, camber, convexedness,
     convexity, convexness, embossment, eminence, excrescence,
     excrescency, excurvation, excurvature, extrusion, gibbosity,
     gibbousness, high relief, low relief, projection, prominence,
     protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, salience, salient,
     tuberousness