What is "nodules"

Usage examples of "nodules".

Water had created small nodules underfoot, and grooves, so that the going was more uncertain and it was hard to shake off the illusion that they were traveling down a damp, fleshy throat.

Indian Tenorio stood at the table and displayed his arms laden with necklaces, nodules of blue and green turquoise on knotted string.

The heavy spring runoff had washed down fresh nodules of flint from the chalk deposits of higher elevations and left them stranded on the floodplain.

Droog had scoured the floodplain of the stream for the nodules of flint that had washed down the mountain, and dragged several back to the campsite.

It took time to develop a sense that nodules in one location were better, fresher, less subject to inclusions of foreign materials, than stones from a different location.

She remembered the glittering nodules of iron pyrite she had found and put in her amulet.

Ayla reached for her amulet and felt for the fifth object she carried in it now: a piece of black manganese dioxide nestled in the small pouch along with the three nodules of iron pyrite stuck together, a red-stained oval of mammoth ivory, the fossil cast of a gastropod, and a chunk of red ochre.

He went to his cubicle, attached the nodules to his temples as directed, felt a pleasant drowsiness come over him, and.

Finally he emitted a sigh, replaced the nodules, and walked out to the foyer.

Beneath him, near the base of the growth, the protruding nodules that had provided precarious footing for his ascent were inflating alarmingly, like so many infected pustules on the skin of a dermatically challenged giant.

These worked away gayly, and the white men set up a sorting table, and sorted the stuff, and hammered the nodules, and at last found a little stone as big as a pea that refracted the light.

Jondalar opened his backframe, took out the things on top, then pulled out his pouch and gave Laduni two nodules of flint already prepared.

She held the three shiny nodules of iron pyrite, stuck together, tight in her fist.

Then he picked up one of the flint nodules he had brought to the site and inspected it.

The salt water seems strangely warm to my body and is shot through with ghostly nodules of phosphorescent light.