1.
[syn: tuberosity, tubercle, eminence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tuberosity \Tu`ber*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. Tuberosities. [Cf. F.
tub['e]rosit['e].]
1. The state of being tuberous.
[1913 Webster]
2. An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tuberosity
n 1: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a
muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity, tubercle,
eminence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuberosity":
bas-relief, bellying, boldness, bulging, camber, convexedness,
convexity, convexness, embossment, eminence, excrescence,
excrescency, excurvation, excurvature, extrusion, gibbosity,
gibbousness, high relief, low relief, projection, prominence,
protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, salience, salient,
tuberousness