Definitions for nodule

nodule nod·ule

Spelling: [noj-ool]
IPA: /ˈnɒdʒ ul/

Nodule is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in nodule (delnou).

Definitions for nodule

noun

  1. a small node, knot, or knob.
  2. a small, rounded mass or lump.
  3. Botany. a tubercle.

Origin of nodule

1590-1600; Latin nōdulus a little knot, equivalent to nōd(us) node + -ulus -ule

Examples for nodule

A sharp-edged, natural flake served for one, and a nodule or fragment served for the other.

The first of these cartilages articulates with a nodule situated a little above the middle of the first bone of the sternum.

The essential symptoms of glanders are the nodule, the chancre, the glands, and the discharge.

Doubtless, an eddy from this hole accounts for the deposit of snow and, by accretions, for the erection of the nodule.

Fig. 9 is from Northern Ohio, and is carved from a nodule of iron ore.

Nature's method of repair was a hypertrophy of the subintimal connective tissue and the formation of a nodule at that point.

Rind—a deeply weathered area on the outer surface of a nodule or chunk of flint or like material.

The size of the fish evidently regulated that of the nodule.

The gland, which is seen as a nodule, is drawn forward with forceps.

When it was opened, out of one nodule came man and from the other woman.

Word Value for nodule
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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