protuberance (n.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: bulge , bump , hump , swelling , gibbosity , gibbousness , jut , prominence , protrusion , extrusion , excrescence ]

  2. the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out; the protuberance of his belly'

The dictionary is based on the WordNet Electronic Lexical Database.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2011 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.