Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Swelling outward; bulging.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelling; prominent beyond the surrounding surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Swelling orbulging outward .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective curving outward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He has, in his account of the "Little Club," compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before.
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891
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He has, in his account of the "Little Club," compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before.
Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746
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He has, in his account of the Little Club, compared himself to a spider, and, by another, is described as protuberant behind and before.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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(And if anyone knows a better word for "protuberant", please let me know)
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The more interesting Kantian parameter is that youve got protuberant hippo eyes, Matthew.
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The mattress above me, protuberant from Eddie's ample ass, jiggled happily.
Phlegmatic Craig Lancaster 2011
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The protuberant corner was directly under her fingers as she held the book to read.
Just Right Laurita Miller 2011
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The mattress above me, protuberant from Eddie's ample ass, jiggled happily.
Phlegmatic Craig Lancaster 2011
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Therefore I did not need to concern myself with the unblinking, protuberant eyes common to that unpleasant clan that had formerly tenanted many of the rooms directly of concern.
Abomination at the Shilkie Andrew Edwards 2011
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The trees cut down to make space for the squat, vinyl-sided, inflated colonials that the developers planted overnight, slicing and dicing away any protuberant greenery as they built.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word protuberant
Bouncer. Good morning, Colonel Cox. I hope you slept comfortably, Colonel.
Cox. I can't say I did, B. I should feel obliged to you, if you could accommodate me
with a more protuberant bolster, B. The one I’ve got now seems to me to have
about a handful and a half of feathers at each end, and nothing whatever in the
middle.
-- Cox and Box
August 20, 2008
katiegiles commented on the word protuberant
Kellerman-Flesh and Blood : "I caught a nose-full of rotten meat stench and a glimpse of misshapen green-gray face, purplish, swollen eyes, protuberant tongue, long blonde strands, before he resealed the bag and led me away"
November 12, 2010