excrescence

Nouns

  • (n) 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
    bulge, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, bump, swelling, prominence,
  • (n) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body

Synonyms

bulge extrusion gibbosity gibbousness hump jut protrusion protuberance bump swelling prominence

Words of close approximity

excrescent