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Protuberance   /proʊtˈubərəns/  /prətˈubərəns/   Listen
Protuberance

noun
1.
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.  Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling.  "The hump of a camel" , "He stood on the rocky prominence" , "The occipital protuberance was well developed" , "The bony excrescence between its horns"
2.
The condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out.



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"Protuberance" Quotes from Famous Books



... and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders. The fact that this one is lamellibranchiate in its formation, simply adds to its interest as being possibly of a different kind from any we read of in the records of science, but yet in no manner marring its ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



Words linked to "Protuberance" :   wart, projection, mogul, frontal eminence, condition, protuberate, nub, jut, belly, status, caput, snag, protuberant, nubble



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