tuberosity

from 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}]

from 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]

from 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

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