protuberance

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noun

1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings (Freq. 1)
- the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
- the hump of a camel
- he stood on the rocky prominence
- the occipital protuberance was well developed
- the bony excrescence between its horns
• Syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
• Derivationally related forms:
excrescent (for: excrescence), protrude (for: protrusion), protuberant, protuberate, gibbous (for: gibbousness), gibbous (for: gibbosity), hump (for: hump), bulgy (for: bulge), bulge (for: bulge)
• Hypernyms:
projection
• Hyponyms:
frontal eminence, occipital protuberance, belly, caput, mogul,
nub, nubble, snag, wart
2. the condition of being protuberant;
the condition of bulging out
- the protuberance of his belly
• Derivationally related forms:
protuberant, protuberate
• Hypernyms:
condition, status