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Tuberosity

Definition: Tuberosity

Tuberosity

Noun

1. A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Tuberosity

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Nodule-like swellings on roots more than one year old after these have been attacked by phylloxera. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Tuberosity

Synonyms: eminence (n), tubercle (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tuberosity

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Convexity

Intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tuberosity

English words defined with "tuberosity": Ischiorectaltubercular, Tuberosities. (references)
Specialty definitions using "tuberosity": Tibial Arteries. (references)

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Expression: Tuberosity

Expression using "tuberosity": deltoid tuberosity. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tuberosity

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ischial tuberosity

13

tuberosity

7

greater tuberosity

3

tibial tuberosity

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tuberosity

Language Translations for "tuberosity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

knoldformethed. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tuberositas. (various references)

   

French

  

tubérosité. (various references)

   

German

  

Tuberosität. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κονδυλώδεσ, βολβώδεσ, φυματίωση (consumption, tubercolosis, tuberculosis, white scourge). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

'בששת. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bonggol (bump, tuber, tubercle, wen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tuberosit . (various references)

   

Manx

  

moylid. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uberositytay

   

Portuguese

  

tuberosidade (tuber). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бугорок;узелок;бугристость. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tuberosidad. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rotknölighet. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nub, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberous, wart), ur (excrescence, fibroid, growth, neoplasm, tumor, tumour, vegetation, Wen). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Tuberosity"

Words rhyming with "tuberosity" (pronounced 'Tu`ber*os"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tuberosity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-o-r-s-t-t-u-y"

-2 letters: bistoury, botrytis, obtusity, sobriety, touristy, tributes, tutoyers.

-3 letters: bettors, bistort, bitters, bustier, butters, buttery, butties, obesity, obtuser, orbiest, ourebis, outsert, rubiest, stourie, stouter, tourist, touters, tribute, tryouts, turbits, turbots, tutoyer.

-4 letters: bestir, bettor, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, bitter, boites, bourse, britts, bruise, bruits, brutes, burets, buries, busier, buster, buteos, butter, buttes, buyers, obtest.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-o-r-s-t-t-u-y"
 

+3 letters: obstructively.

 

+5 letters: subreptitiously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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