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Nodule   /nˈɑdʒul/   Listen
Nodule

noun
1.
A small node.
2.
Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant.  Synonym: tubercle.
3.
(mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment).





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"Nodule" Quotes from Famous Books



... ideas was not with the flint as a fire-stone, though the fact that a piece of flint struck with a nodule of pyrites will emit a spark was not unknown. But the flint was everywhere employed for arrow and lance heads. The flashes of light, the lightning, anything that darted swiftly and struck violently, was compared to the hurtling arrow or the whizzing ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... is this; a calcareous body is to be metamorphosed into a siliceous nodule, having a cavity within it lined with quartz, crystals, etc. M. de Carosi means to inform us how this may be done. Now, as this process requires no other conditions than those that may be found upon the surface of this earth, the proper way to prove ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton


Words linked to "Nodule" :   mineralogy, nodular, node, hunk, plant process, lump, tubercle, geode, enation


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