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Definition: Tuberosity |
TuberosityNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Nodule-like swellings on roots more than one year old after these have been attacked by phylloxera. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: TuberositySynonyms: eminence (n), tubercle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tuberosity |
| English words defined with "tuberosity": Ischiorectal ♦ tubercular, Tuberosities. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tuberosity": Tibial Arteries. (references) |
Expression using "tuberosity": deltoid tuberosity. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ischial tuberosity | 13 |
tuberosity | 7 |
greater tuberosity | 3 |
tibial tuberosity | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 tuberosidade (tuber). (various references) бугорок;узелок;бугристость. (various references) tuberosidad. (various references) rotknölighet. (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
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. | |
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