protuberant

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Adjective
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pro=tu=ber=ant

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective protuberant has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

protuberanta. [L. protuberans, -antis, p. pr. of protuberare. See Protuberate.].
     Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

protuberant, adj. bulging out; prominent (protuberant eyes; a protuberant fact).

Derivative
protuberance n.
Etymology
LL protuberare (as PRO-(1), tuber bump)

THESAURUS

protuberant

beetling, bold, bulbous, bulging, distended, eminent, emissile, excrescent, excrescential, extruding, extrusive, gibbous, jutting, outstanding, overhanging, prognathous, projecting, prominent, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberating, salient, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid

ROGET THESAURUS

protuberant

Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).


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