PROTUBERANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does protuberance mean?
• PROTUBERANCE (noun)
The noun PROTUBERANCE has 2 senses:
1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
2. the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
Familiarity information: PROTUBERANCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROTUBERANCE (noun)
Meaning:
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
bulge; protuberance; protrusion; jut; hump; gibbousness; gibbosity; extrusion; excrescence; bump; prominence
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("protuberance" is a kind of...):
projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protuberance"):
frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)
occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)
belly (a part that bulges deeply)
caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)
mogul (a bump on a ski slope)
nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)
snag (a sharp protuberance)
wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))
Meaning:
The condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
the protuberance of his belly
Hypernyms ("protuberance" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
