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Word Meanings - TUBEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n. (more info) 1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.

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  • TUBERCLE
    A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • BEARISH
    Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
  • BEARWARD
    A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
  • BEAR
    produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. gebären, Goth. baíran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. bära, Dan. bære, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. , OSlav brati to take, carry, OIr. 1. To support or sustain; to hold
  • BEAR'S-BREECH
    See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • BEAR'S-EAR
    A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf.
  • BEARDLESSNESS
    The state or quality of being destitute of beard.
  • BEARABLE
    Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.
  • CONSISTORY
    The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • KNOBBED
    Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.
  • COVERER
    One who, or that which, covers.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • SHIELD-BEARER
    Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
  • SUPERTUBERATION
    The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing.
  • PROTUBERATE
    To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
  • SEABEARD
    A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
  • DOWNBEAR
    To bear down; to depress.
  • BLUEBEARD
    The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it
  • ANT-BEAR
    An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
  • GRAYBEARD
    An old man. Shak.
  • EXTUBERANCY
    Extuberance.
  • MISBEAR
    To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer.
  • PROTUBERANCE
    That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which

 

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