Tubercular 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Tussock 



TUBER'CULAR, in the form of a 

 tubercle or having tubercles. 



TUBER'CUlATE, having tuber- 

 cles; tuberculose; tubercular. 

 TUBER'CUlATED, see Tubercu- 



LATE. 



TU'BERCULE, a tuberous root, as 

 in tbe dahlia. (Obs.) 



TUBER'CULOSE, consisting of 

 tubercles; bearing many tu- 

 bercles; tuberculate. 



TUBERCULOUS, see Tubercu- 

 lose. 



TUBERIF'EROUS, bearing tubers. 

 TU'BEROSE, see Tuberous. 

 TU'BEROUS, bearing tubers, as a 

 tuberous plant; resembling a 

 tuber, as tuberous roots. 

 TUBE' - SHAPED, tubular and 

 rather long and wide; about 

 the same as Trumpet-shaped, 

 but may be snorter; tubiform; 

 tuboeform; tubeform; tubate. 

 See Tubular. 

 TU'BULAR, in the form of a tube 

 or pipe; fistular; tubulose. 

 Applied in Composite to 

 disk - florets, in distinction 

 from the ligulate florets of 

 tbe ray; also to any gamopet- 

 alous or gamosepalous flower, 

 especially if tbe tube is rather 

 long and wide. See Tube- 

 shaped. 

 TU'BULAR FLO'RET, a disk- 

 flower in Composite, when, 

 as is usual, it differs from 

 those of the ray in having a 

 small and regular corolla; 

 disk-floret; disk-flower. Com- 

 pare Ligulate Floret. 

 TU'BULI, pi., see Tubulus. 

 TUBULIflO ROUS, applied to a 

 bead of flowers in Composite 

 whicb bears tubular florets 

 only. 



TU'BULOSE, see Tubular. 

 TU'BULUS (pi. Tu'bull), (1) one | 



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of the cells surrounding the 

 central siphon in Cbara ; 

 (2) applied by some to the 

 neck in Pyrenomycetes. 



TUFT'ED, see Cespitose. 



TUMESCENT, slightly tumid. 



TUMID, somewhat turgid or 

 inflated. 



TU'NlC, any integument or in- 

 vesting layer, as a seed-coat, 

 or a peridium; especially, a 

 membranous scale of a bulb, 

 or a dry sbeatb surrounding 

 one of tbe lower interuodes in 

 certain grasses. 

 TU'NICATE, covered with a thin, 



separable coat or tunic. 

 TU'NlCATED, see Tunicate. 

 TU'NlCATED BULB, a bulb with 

 broad, thin scales which form 

 successive overlapping coats, 

 as in tbe onion; coated bulb. 

 Compare Scaly Bulb. 

 TURBINATE, top -shaped; in- 

 versely conical, as the peri- 

 carp of water-lilies. 

 TURGES'CENT, swelling; slight- 

 ly turgid. 

 TUR'6lD, (1) thickened as if 

 swollen, like a tuber; (2) dis- 

 tended with liquid, but not 

 with air. Compare Inflated 

 and Tumid. 

 TU'RIO (pi. Turio'nes), see Tu- 



RION. 



TU'RlON, a leafless or scaly shoot 

 from the ground, as a young 

 stem of asparagus; turio. 



TURIONlF EROUS, bearing tu- 

 rions. 



TURN'LNG In, commencing to 



head: said of cabbages, etc. 

 TUR'NlP- SHAPED, see Napi- 



FORM. 



TUR'PENTINE VES SEX§, see 



Resin-passages. 

 TUS'SOCK, a tuft growing from 

 the ground, as in many grasses. 



