protuberance en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French protubérance, from Latin prōtubērantia (“bulge; protuberance”), from prō + tūber (“swelling; protuberance”) + -antia (“-ance”).
Meanings
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A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.
Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on.
1989, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks:For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.
1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376:The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.
2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137:Oluanpi's lighthouse looks toward Lanyu, or Orchid Island, a tiny, rocky protuberance sixty-eight miles to the southeast and important because it is the home of the Yami, the smallest and most primitive tribe of aborigines in Taiwan.
1979 November, Irene Corbally Kuhn, “Gourmet Holidays Taiwan”, in Gourmet, volume XXXIX, number 11, page 164:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| protuberances | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
protuberanceless · internal occipital protuberance · protuberantial · mental protuberance
Relateds
Synonyms
tuberosity · protrusion · bump · bulge
Translations (51)
it protuberanza (Something that protrudes) · ar نُتُوء (Something that protrudes) · pl wypukłość (Something that protrudes) · de Schwellung (Something that protrudes) · ga breall (Something that protrudes) · pl zgrubienie (Something that protrudes) · mi pūreke (Something that protrudes) · mi tīngoingoi (Something that protrudes) · mi kou (Something that protrudes) · de Beule (Something that protrudes) · ru бугоро́к (Something that protrudes) · ga tulán (Something that protrudes) · nl gezwel (Something that protrudes) · fi uloke (Something that protrudes) · bg изпъкналост (Something that protrudes) · ga fadharcán (Something that protrudes) · es protuberancia (Something that protrudes) · fr protubérance (Something that protrudes) · nl uitgroeisel (Something that protrudes) · ru вы́пуклость (Something that protrudes) · fr saillie (Something that protrudes) · fi pullistuma (Something that protrudes) · ga meall (Something that protrudes) · la protuberantia (Something that protrudes) · ru вы́ступ (Something that protrudes) · de Vorsprung (Something that protrudes) · ota تومسك (Something that protrudes) · de Ausbuchtung (Something that protrudes) · nl uitwas (Something that protrudes) · la tūber (Something that protrudes) · ga boiric (Something that protrudes) · fi paise (Something that protrudes) · ga cnap (Something that protrudes) · bg издаденост (Something that protrudes) · fi patti (Something that protrudes) · de Protuberanz (Something that protrudes) · ar نَاتِئ (Something that protrudes) · ca protuberància (Something that protrudes) · de Hervortreten (Something that protrudes) · pt saliência (Something that protrudes) · sv knöl (Something that protrudes) · de Hervorschwellung (Something that protrudes) · pt protuberância (Something that protrudes) · bg подутина (Something that protrudes) · ga tul (Something that protrudes) · de Knubbel (Something that protrudes) · cs výčnělek (Something that protrudes) · de Grat (Something that protrudes) · de Auswuchs (Something that protrudes) · ga cíoch (Something that protrudes) · fi ulkonema (Something that protrudes)