Synonyms of the word

nodule

• n. A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

enation

• n. (botany) A small outgrowth on the surface of a plant organ.
• n. (botany, uncountable) The generation of such an outgrowth.

hunk

• n. A large or dense piece of something.
• n. (informal) A sexually attractive boy or man, especially one who is muscular.
• n. (computing) A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources…
• n. (US, slang) A honyock.

lump

• n. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
• n. A group, set, or unit.
• n. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
• n. A dull or lazy person.
• n. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
• n. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
• v. To treat as a single unit; to group together.

node

• n. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
• n. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The…
• n. (botany) A stem node.
• n. (computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
• n. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions;…
• n. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode,…
• n. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
• n. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or…
• n. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
• n. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
• n. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour…
• n. (linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

tubercle

• n. (anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the…
• n. (botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain…
• n. (pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.