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Bull Brier :: Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier..

Oca :: Oca (n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers..

Hump :: Hump (n.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale..

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

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle..

Tuberculization :: Tuberculization (n.) The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

Node :: Node (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling..

Tuberosity :: Tuberosity (n.) An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.

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..

Eddoes :: Eddoes (n. pl.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.

Mammillary :: Mammillary (a.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances..

Stapes :: Stapelia (n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion..

Capitulum :: Capitulum (n.) A knoblike protuberance of any part, esp. at the end of a bone or cartilage. [See Illust. of Artiodactyla.].

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

Pouch :: Pouch (n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.

Pommel :: Pommel (n.) The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.

Ball :: Ball (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot..

Tuberculated :: Tuberculated (a.) Tubercled; tubercular.

Verrucose :: Verrucose (a.) Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty; verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule..

Pot-belly :: Pot-belly (n.) A protuberant belly.

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