Crossword-Solution: NODOSE 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Yet here he stood, promulged and published, strikingly and flagrantly pronounced! At first he was like to sulk in the style of a hawk who has failed of his swoop; but seeing his enemy arising slowly with grunts, and action nodose and angular--rather than flexibly graceful--contempt became the uppermost feature of his mind.

Nodose -us: knotted or with knots; a body with one or more knotted parts a sculpture with almost isolated knots.

Each spine is nearly cylindrical, irregularly curled, and nodose or slightly enlarged at intervals: the apex smooth and pointed; the exterior surface longitudinally and finely ribbed, like the valves.

Stem hollow, 2--6° high; _leaves reduced to cylindrical hollow pointed nodose petioles_; oil-tubes filling the intervals.--Ponds and swamps, Del.

Fruit globose or slightly flattened laterally; dorsal ribs filiform, the lateral thick and corky; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure.--Small perennials, creeping and rooting in the mud, with hollow cylindrical or awl-shaped nodose petioles in place of leaves, simple few-flowered umbels, and white flowers.