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tuberosities

tuberosities is the plural of tuberosity.

Meaning of tuberosity

Noun

tuberosity (countable and uncountable, plural tuberosities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being tuberous
  2. (countable) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached.
    • The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.2002, T. H. Worthy, The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand, page 128

Phrases with tuberosities

Questions about tuberosities

What is tuberosities the plural of?
Tuberosities is the plural of tuberosity.

Words near tuberosities in the dictionary

  1. tuberoplasty
  2. tuberose
  3. tuberoses
  4. tuberoside
  5. tuberositas
  6. tuberosities
  7. tuberosity
  8. tuberosphere
  9. tuberospheres
  10. tuberous
  11. tuberous begonia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tuberosities (page history and authors); tuberosity (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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