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protrusion

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, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protuberance, bump, swelling, prominence,
• (n) the act of projecting out from something jutting, jut, projection,

Synonyms

bulge excrescence extrusion gibbosity gibbousness hump jut protuberance bump swelling prominence jutting projection

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