protuberance - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From French protubérance, from Latin prōtubērantia (“bulge; protuberance”), from prō + tūber (“swelling; protuberance”) + -antia (“-ance”).

protuberance (plural protuberances)

  1. A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.
    Synonyms: bulge, bump, protrusion, tuberosity
    • 1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376:
      For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.
    • 1989, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks:
      Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on.
    • 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
      The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.

Something that protrudes