Definition of Nodulous. Meaning of Nodulous. Synonyms of Nodulous

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Definition of Nodulous

Nodulous
Nodulose Nod"u*lose`, Nodulous Nod"u*lous, a. (Biol.) Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Meaning of Nodulous from wikipedia

- longitudinal ribs positioned at equal and regular intervals, becoming slightly nodulous at the suture. The interstices are somewhat larger and slightly cut across...
- to a length of 40 cm. The s**** is pyriform. The body whorl is large, nodulous or spinose. The spire is very short. The aperture is large and subtriangular...
- concavely shouldered, somewhat indistinctly keeled. The keel is rendered nodulous by the ends of close obliquely longitudinal ribs, which are short, becoming...
- body whorl is tricarinate, those of the spire bicarinate. The carinae are nodulous. The color of the s**** is whitish, maculated with yellowish chestnut....
- larger. The axial sculpture consists of (on the body whorl 18) equal narrow nodulous ribs with subequal interspaces. The ribs extend well over the base from...
- planate. The sutures are hardly impressed. The spire contains 3 regular, nodulous riblets, the nodules whitish, and subdistant. The interstices are very...
- sutures and moderately shouldered at the summit. They are marked by strongly nodulous, decidedly retractive axial ribs, of which 14 occur upon the first, 16...
- the slender and well-spaced spiral cords, the very much fewer and less nodulous axial ribs, the more open sinus, and the warmer and brighter coloring,...
- the angle with two ribs and the body whorl with five stout scabrously nodulous ribs. Between these and the sutures are four or five smaller and closer...
- s**** is obtusely conic. The spire is elevated. The whorls are flattened, nodulous and carinated. The peristome is thin and continuous. The s**** can grow...