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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling

Context example:

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))

Derivation:

protuberant (curving outward)

protuberate (cause to bulge out or project)

Sense 2

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)

Derivation:

protuberant (curving outward)

protuberate (form a rounded prominence)

 Context examples 

The principal symptoms are fever, congestion of the ocular conjunctivae, reddening of the lips and oral cavity, protuberance of tongue papillae, and edema or erythema of the extremities.

(Kawasaki Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Scientists believe the arc and protuberances are caused by the gravitational effects of a nearby object.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)

Scientists also found unusual protuberances in the usually smooth profile at the ring's edge.

(Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn, NASA)