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What is the adjective for tuberosity?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs tube and tuberize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tuberous
  1. Of, relating to, resembling, or producing tubers
  2. Examples:
    1. “In 1794, Moench named A. tuberosa and described it as having tuberous roots, unevenly pinnate leaflets, and purple flowers in lateral racemes.”
      “In addition, an increased frequency of occurrence is noted in patients with genetic conditions such as fragile X syndrome and tuberous sclerosis.”
      “Such conditions include fragile X syndrome, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, Noonan's syndrome and Cornelia de Lange's syndrome.”
tuberlike
  1. Having some characteristics of a tuber
tubed
  1. Possessing a tube or tubes.
tubelike
  1. Resembling a tube, especially in shape
  2. Examples:
    1. “When it shoves its tubelike mouthparts into a plant to suck sap from the xylem, the insect may transmit a deadly plant bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in its saliva.”
      “He and his colleagues focused on the xylem tissue, which consists of tubelike elements that carry water and nutrients throughout the plant.”
      “Called the peduncle, the tubelike structure descends underneath the bell and branches out into more elaborate tubes for feeding.”
tuberiferous
  1. Producing or bearing tubers.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Leaf cuttings of some tuberiferous or bulbiferous plants produce little tubers or bulbs in the same way.”
      “Light sprout morphology of wild tuberiferous Solanum species.”
tuberal
  1. Characteristic of a tuber
tubiform
  1. Having the form of a tube.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Halysis is distinguished from the Microproblematicum Flabellia by not being tubiform.”
tubeform
tubicolous
  1. (zoology) Inhabiting a tube.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Spirorbis borealis, another benthic, tubicolous polychaete, releases its larvae at the first and third quarters of the moon.”
      “In this regard their mode of life may have been quite similar to fossil and recent species of tubicolous polychaete worms, such as serpulids.”
      “In filter-feeding tubicolous polychaetes the buccal cavity is not eversible and there is no proboscis.”
tuberless
  1. Without tubers.
tubing
  1. present participle of tube
tuberized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of tuberize
tuberizing
  1. present participle of tuberize
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