English > protuberance: 2 senses > noun 1, shape| Meaning | Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. |
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| Example | "the occipital protuberance was well developed" |
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| Synonyms | bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence |
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| Narrower | belly | A part that bulges deeply |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | bulto, corcova, excrecencia, extrusión, joroba, prominencia, protuberancia |
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| Catalan | bony, gepa, gep, monticle, prominència, protuberància |
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| Adjectives | protuberant | curving outward |
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| Verbs | protuberate | cause to bulge out or project |
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