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Pustular :: Pustular (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.

Protuberance :: Protuberance (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, color, or brilliancy; as, staring windows or colors..

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca..

Grain :: Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4..

Process :: Process (n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis..

Protuberancy :: Protuberancy (n.) The quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

Genian :: Genian (a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genian prominence..

Swellish :: Swelling (n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling..

Tractarian :: Tractarian (n.) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called Tracts for the Times, issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite..

Unicorn :: Unicorn (n.) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.

Pebble :: Pebble (v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

Glome :: Glome (n.) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.

Vesicle :: Vesicle (n.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.

Cragged :: Cragged (a.) Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged..

Up :: Up (adv.) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up..

Cusp :: Cusp (n.) A prominence or point, especially on the crown of a tooth..

Frog :: Frog (n.) The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette..

Thenar :: Thenar (n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.

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