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wartlike

a. Resembling a wart or some aspect of one.

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wartlike

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

Usage examples of "wartlike".

Cheddar cheese, a greening potato covered with wartlike sprouts, and half an air-dried tomato drawing in on itself.

In a row which he had taken great pains to make straight, but which was nevertheless crooked because the paper was unlined, eight, twelve, thirteen, fourteen unequally flattened circles and on every kidney a wartlike knob, and from each wart a bar the length of a thumbnail, projecting beyond the lopsided boiler toward the left edge of the paper.

At first sight it appears to consist of odd-shaped islands fringed by wartlike buds, but increasing the magnification reveals more of them, no two ever exactly alike, down to any level of magnitude without limit.

The old cruiser was stubby and humpbacked, with a confusion of wartlike turrets protruding from its ungainly hull as if sown at random like wild seeds.

Its feet were short, thickened tentacles, with wartlike excrescences that evidently served for traction.

And these tough plates of horny armor were pebbled with hideous wartlike encrustations.