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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something, such as a bulge, knob, or swelling, that protrudes.
  2. n. The condition of being protuberant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. n. See the adjectives.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A bulge, knob, swelling, spine or anything that protrudes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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

  1. n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  2. n. the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out

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