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noun a small node
noun small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
noun (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)
originBorrowed from Latin nōdulus (“small knot”), from nōdus (“knot”). Doublet of nodulus.
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