Crossword clues for protuberance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protuberance \Pro*tu"ber*ance\, n. [Cf. F. protub['e]rance. See Protuberant.] That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.
Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append.
Syn: Projection, Protuberance. protuberance differs from projection, being applied to parts that rise from the surface with a gradual ascent or small angle; whereas a projection may be at a right angle with the surface.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A bulge, knob, swelling, spine or anything that protrudes.
WordNet
n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out; "the protuberance of his belly"
Wikipedia
Protuberance may refer to:
- Mental protuberance
- Occipital protuberances
- Internal occipital protuberance
- External occipital protuberance
- Adam's apple, also known as laryngeal protuberance
Usage examples of "protuberance".
Miller tells of a West Point student who had an elongation of the coccyx, forming a protuberance which bulged very visibly under the skin.
Australasian regions and its fantastic islands, the leading feature inaugurated in this important wood block is a marked departure from the Behaimean and Schonerean configurations, one strange phase of this new departure being the total disappearance of the Austral-Asian continental protuberance which occupied in previous charts the site of Australia.
A slight fleshy protuberance depended from the cicatrix of the humerus and shoulder-joint of the left side, and until the age of ten there was one on the right side.
Exercise at the riding school always gave him great distress, and the protuberance would often chafe until the skin was broken, the blood trickling into his boots.
San Andreas Bumper was an S shaped bend in the Fault Line, a flangelike protuberance or kink where the northbound Pacific Plate and the westbound North American Plate were stuck.
His facesave for the ample purple protuberance of his nose had faded to a greenish, sickly pallor.
Their outer coatings swirled into black, and odd protuberances grew out of them.
Small cooking bowl with protuberances to facilitate removal from fire.
Small pot for heating water, with protuberances, and ornate winding ridges for facilitating handling.
Small pot for heating water, with protuberances, and ornate winding ridges for facilitating handling, or removing to and from the fire.
Ditto, entire body of the vessel is covered with small protuberances to facilitate handling while hot.
Small decorated paint pot with spinous protuberances to facilitate handling.
Three small paint pots with spinous protuberances to facilitate handling.
Small paint pot with protuberances representing spines of cactus fruit and made to facilitate handling.
Small sacred paint vessel with protuberances and decorated with frog figure.