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Bud :: Bud (n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower..

Wart :: Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants..

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

Prominency :: Prominency (n.) That which is prominent; a protuberance.

Nipple :: Nipple (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.

Knappy :: Knappy (a.) Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby.

Callosity :: Callosity (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction..

Teat :: Teat (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

Caput :: Caput (n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum..

Humpy :: Humpy (a.) Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

Friezed :: Friezed (a.) Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., 2..

Nub :: Nub (n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story..

Biventral :: Biventral (a.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum..

Heel :: Heel (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing..

Hornbill :: Hornbill (n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals..

Hub :: Hub (n.) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby..

Jag :: Jag (n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.

Belly :: Belly (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship..

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