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Warty

Warty \Wart"y\, a.

  1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

  2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence.

    Warty egg (Zo["o]l.), a marine univalve shell ( Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.

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warty

a. 1 having warts 2 similar to a wart

WordNet
warty

adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts [syn: verrucose, wartlike]

Usage examples of "warty".

Skarn was at once transformed into a warty, mouse-scented demon, which the recovered Flax promptly dispersed.

Salmalin was fingering his warty skin along the edge of his jaw, looking from Soli back to me.

Now the exposed sections were tarnished curves of dark metal, the originally sharp edges of the parachute release mechanisms abraded down to warty clusters.

Roseate or sombre your humour as you patrol the reefs, it is liable to be changed in a flash into clashing tints by inadvertent contact with a warty ghoul of a sea-urchin, a single one of whose agonising spines never fails to bring you face to face with one of the vividest realities of life.

Klonski bounced up and down in his chair in amazement and began to howl with laughter, rolling from side to side, until the tears streamed down his warty face.

From its warty snout to the tip of its tail, it measured more than four times as long as Cholo himself.

He stood on tiptoe for a moment, looking for the Blue Zoo, the warty indigo frog of a Victorian in which he and Clawhammer Perry Brown and a Korean string trio had shared the top floor rent-free for almost three months, before the party downstairs ended and the owner noticed them.

Spreading rings of dark blood began to seep through the front of its robes, dripping from the warty blebs that covered its naked skin.

Standing at the door was a six-foot frog dressed in footman's livery, with a white peruke slightly askew on his warty green head.

In the end it is the quick-thinking kids who put an end to the warty horror, and then go off to the local hangout to suck up chocolate malteds and jitterbug to some forgettable tune as the end credits run.

Among the speaking and walking were a dozen or so who appeared mankindly enough to pass in a crowd, creatures with names like Blade and Shatter and Brigand, Machinist and Mooly, and some of the mankindly ones wore clothes as Ashes did, though more were clad in thick hair or bristles or scales or feathers, or had skin that was warty or horned or embossed or folded.

A crowd of Wildfolk went with him, darting around or skipping beside him, a gaggle of green, warty gnomes, three enormous yellow creatures with swollen stomachs and red fangs, and his faithful blue sprite, perching on his shoulder and running tiny hands through his hair.

Elsewhere the warty titans were scissored to a spew of green tissue by juggernaut jaws.

In the sand at the base of the tree a toad-fish softly drew its hideous warty head back into its funnel and a number of flower-like sea-worms whisked out of sight down their gelatinous tubes.