tubercle

• tubercule, tuberculum

Derived from Latin tūberculum. Compare tuber.

• enPR: t(y)o͞o′bər-kəl
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt(j)uː.bə.kəl/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈt(j)u.bəɹ.kəl/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈt(j)ʉː.bə.kəl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈt(j)ʉ.bəɹ.kəl/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈʈ(j)uː.bɜː(ɾ).kel/, /ˈʈ(j)uː.bəɾ.kel/
• Rhymes: -uːbə(ɹ)kəl
• Hyphenation: tu‧ber‧cle

tubercle (plural tubercles)

1. (anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.

   the iliac tubercles

   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 41:

     The four long white plumes which give the bird its altogether unique character, spring from little tubercles close to the upper edge of the shoulder or bend of the wing; they are narrow, gently curved, and equally webbed on both sides, of a pure creamy white colour.

2. (botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
3. (pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

• tuberosity, eminence, nodule

• “tubercle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• tubèrcul

Borrowed from Latin tūberculum. First attested in 1932.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tuˈβɛr.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tuˈbɛr.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tuˈbɛɾ.kle]
• Rhymes: (Central, Balearic) -ɛrklə, (Valencia) -ɛɾkle
• Hyphenation: tu‧ber‧cle

tubercle m (plural tubercles)

1. (anatomy) tubercle (round nodule on a bone)
2. (botany) tubercle (wartlike protuberance on the roots of some plants)

• “tubercle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tubercle”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “tubercle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tubercle”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)