Nodule: alternatives and connections

A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinct…

A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.

A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lu…

To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.

A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of…

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern

a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in wor…

To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together.

Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable t…

an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern

A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some; "little rain fell…

Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.