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UK
/pɹətjˈuːbəɹəns/
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[ US /pɹəˈtubɝəns, pɹoʊˈtubɝəns/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈtubɝəns, pɹoʊˈtubɝəns/ ]
NOUN
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something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
the hump of a camel
the bony excrescence between its horns
the occipital protuberance was well developed
the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
he stood on the rocky prominence -
the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
the protuberance of his belly
How To Use protuberance In A Sentence
- Another protuberance outlined with two vertical incisions serves as a nose, and a horizontal slash suggests a mouth.
- _ -- The _meningocele_ is commonest in the occipital region, where it escapes through a cleft in the bone between the foramen magnum and the occipital protuberance (Fig. 197). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
- Almost elephantine with its twin probosci and large, intelligent eyes, it alternated between curling the forward lobes into tight horn-like protuberances or dropping them down to shovel plankton into its cavernous maw.
- A ‘faucet and sink’ arrangement occurs in this species and the nectary is represented by a small protuberance on the ventral surface of the column.
- We could see it then, a slight protuberance and the growth rings not quite matching. HIGH STAND
- The neurosurgeon reduces the occipital protuberance by securing the central sagittal strip to the occipital bones using nonabsorbable sutures or 28-g surgical steel wire.
- I don't care if it's him blasting "load after sticky load" from his "throbbing manhood" or her "twizzling goop" from her shemale "protuberance;" hot sex scenes need a beginning, a middle, and a goddamn happy ending. Jeff Klima: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Love Scenes
- The interior of the protuberance, which is the fruiting part of the fungus, contains numerous black, flask-like structures whose tips reached the surface. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913
- Birds were mist-netted or caught in seed-baited traps and sexed by examination of the cloacal protuberance.
- It has very few bumps or protuberances, and the surface has as mirror-like a sheen as you can get from white plastic.