tubercle

(noun)

noun

1. a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

Definition categories: state, lesion

2. small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

Similar word(s): nodule

Definition categories: plant, enation

3. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

Similar word(s): eminence, tuberosity

Definition categories: body, appendage, outgrowth, process