Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something, such as a bulge, knob, or swelling, that protrudes.
- n. The condition of being protuberant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; anything swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; on the surface of the earth, a bill, knoll, or other elevation; specifically, in anatomy and zoology, a protuberant part; a projection or prominence; a tuberosity: as, a bony protuberance. See cut under conjugation.
- n. See the adjectives.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- n. the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
Examples
“He's quite round in the shoulders; and yet so inconsistent are women that she calls a protuberance that resembles the letter C the line of beauty.”
“I guess a speed bump could be described as a protuberance?”
“The interior of the protuberance, which is the fruiting part of the fungus, contains numerous black, flask-like structures whose tips reached the surface.”
“L The age of the dag is known by its horns: the firft year exhibits only a dmrt protuberance, which is covered with a hairy ftin; tk next year the horns are diaight and dngle; the third year producd two antlers, the fourth three, the fifth four j and, when, arrived at the fixth year, the antlers amount to fix or feven on, each fide, bal the number is not always certain,.”
“That protuberance which is next the tip holds it on.”
“But feeling a kind of protuberance on its head, he blew the feathers apart, and behold! the head of a pin!”
“It is very probable that he seats himself upon the little square block or protuberance which is seen in a corner of the main compartment when the doors are open.”
“The species, known by the name of the _Double-headed-snake_, has not two heads, but is equally thick before and behind; and, like some caterpillars, furnished with a kind of protuberance at its tail, which, to a superficial observer, may pass for another head.”
“I don't care if it's him blasting "load after sticky load" from his "throbbing manhood" or her "twizzling goop" from her shemale "protuberance;" hot sex scenes need a beginning, a middle, and a goddamn happy ending.”
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“The second is metaphorical: "a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers.”
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