| NOUN | shape | gibbosity, bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings |
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| Meaning | Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. | |
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| Synonyms | bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence | |
| Narrower | belly | A part that bulges deeply |
| caput | A headlike protuberance on an organ or structure | |
| frontal eminence | Either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit | |
| mogul | A bump on a ski slope | |
| nub, nubble | A small lump or protuberance | |
| occipital protuberance | prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone | |
| snag | A sharp protuberance | |
| wart | Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) | |
| Broader | projection | Any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
| Spanish | bulto, corcova, excrecencia, extrusión, joroba, prominencia, protuberancia | |
| Catalan | bony, gepa, gep, monticle, prominència, protuberància | |
| Adjectives | gibbous | characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column |
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