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PROTUBERANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does protuberant mean?
• PROTUBERANT (adjective)
The adjective PROTUBERANT has 1 sense:
1. curving outward
Familiarity information: PROTUBERANT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Curving outward
Synonyms:
bellied; bellying; bulbous; bulging; bulgy; protuberant
Similar:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
Derivation:
protuberance (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)
protuberance (the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out)
protuberate (form a rounded prominence)
protuberate (cause to bulge out or project)
Context examples
Signs and symptoms include a characteristic facial appearance (protuberant and low-set ears, thick lips, and flaring nostrils), intrauterine growth retardation, insulin resistance, and enlarged genitalia.
(Donohue Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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