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PROTUBERANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Example:
the bony excrescence between its horns
Synonyms:
bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("protuberance" is a kind of...):
projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protuberance"):
frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)
occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)
belly (a part that bulges deeply)
caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)
mogul (a bump on a ski slope)
nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)
snag (a sharp protuberance)
wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))
Derivation:
protuberant (curving outward)
protuberate (cause to bulge out or project)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
Example:
the protuberance of his belly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("protuberance" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Derivation:
protuberant (curving outward)
protuberate (form a rounded prominence)
