Associations to the word «Protuberance»

Wiktionary

PROTUBERANCE, noun. A bulge, knob, swelling, spine or anything that protrudes.

Dictionary definition

PROTUBERANCE, noun. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns".
PROTUBERANCE, noun. The condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out; "the protuberance of his belly".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope