TUBEROUS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Tuberous

... them to make around itself in their passage to the inner side of the arm. The vessels may be readily compressed against the upper third of the humerus by the finger, passed into the axilla, and still more effectually if the arm be raised, as this motion will rotate the tuberous head of the humerus ...

— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise

... chooses and make them the confirmed habits of his wards. Take a stroll through his parterres and greenhouses, where side by side he shows you pansies of myriad tints and the modest little wild violets of kindred to the pansies' ancestral stock. Let him contrast for you roses, asters, tuberous begonias, hollyhocks, dahlias, pelargoniums, before cultivation and since. Were wild flowers clay, were the gardener both painter and sculptor, he could not have wrought marvels more glorious than these. In a few years the brethren of his ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various