English to English
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
The gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge.
The hump of a camel.
He stood on the rocky prominence.
The occipital protuberance was well developed.
The bony excrescence between its horns.
source: WordNet 3.0
- (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
source: WordNet 3.0
- An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
source: Webster 1913
