nodose.

Having conspicuous knots, nodes, or rounded swellings along a structure.

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Words that belong together

• nodose stems
• a nodose swelling

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Nodose swellings interrupted the otherwise smooth outline of the tendril.

The root’s nodose form looked deliberate beside the straight fibers around it.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Descriptive adjective; more/most only where comparative degree is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.