protuberance

[US]/prəˈtjuːbərəns/
[UK]/proʊˈtuːbərəns/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a bulging or projecting part; a swelling or lump.

Example Sentences

a small knotlike protuberance.

the large size and protuberance of the incisors.

some dinosaurs evolved protuberances on top of their heads.

cirri Hair-like structures in animals and plants; small, slender, flexible fleshy protuberances; the singular is cirrus.

Results:The expression of VEGF and OPN was related to the deep lobulation,spinous protuberance and metastasis of medi...

Leaf buttress A leaf primordium, appearing as a protuberance on the side of the stem apex, produced by periclinal division of the tunica and corpus, and associated with a procambium.

The whole develop process of E. prolifera kept polarity, the villi-form protuberances and meshwork structures in the internal cavum of pipelike thallus conduced to the morphological development.

Tendril unbranched or bifurcate. Inflorescence usually a polychasium. Seeds elliptic, obovoid-elliptic, or obtriangular, surface smooth, corrugated, or with strumose protuberance or ribs.

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