extuberantadj.
/ɛkˈstjuːbərənt/ Now rare.
Swelling or standing out, protuberant.
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lumpedc1425
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knule?a1513
bolling1519
bossed?1541
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swelling1544
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hulch1611
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jetty?1611
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extuberating1634
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 69v The Orifices [of the ventricle] towardes the interiour partes, obtaine a swelled, or more extuberant part like a circle.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. viii. 223 Shaking her extuberant and reverst lips.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 224 Scrapes off the extuberant Mettal.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §197 A substance..which..in time becomes so extuberant as to deform the face of the walls.
1819 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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