protuberance

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, protrusion, bump, swelling, prominence,
  • (n) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
    • the protuberance of his belly

Synonyms

bulge excrescence extrusion gibbosity gibbousness hump jut protrusion bump swelling prominence

Words of close approximity

protuberant