| 单词 | protuberance |
| 释义 | protuberance (once / 7342 pages) n A protuberance is something that sticks out, like a swelling or a lump or a bunion on your foot. A protuberance doesn’t have to be hideous; it could be your nose on your face or a knot on a tree. The late Latin word prōtūberāre meant "to swell," coming from the prefix pro, which means "forward," and the root word tūber, meaning "swelling." And "root word" is appropriate here, since a tuber is a thick, fleshy part of a root, like a potato. And that should help you remember how to spell the word protuberance. Don't you love it when a word's meaning and its spelling work together? WORD FAMILYprotuberance: protuberances+/protuberate: protuberance, protuberated, protuberates, protuberating USAGE EXAMPLES“There are no weird protuberances. It’s incredibly subtle.” Washington Post(Oct 19, 2016) William Sparks, the lead astronomer on the study, said he could think of no natural phenomenon other than water plumes that might produce such protuberances. BBC(Sep 26, 2016) He detested the giant protuberances that unpleasantly punctuated the view from our bike seats, and often cursed them. The New Yorker(Aug 18, 2016) 1n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings the occipital protuberance was well developed Syn|Hypo|Hyper bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling frontal eminence either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit occipital protuberanceprominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone bellya part that bulges deeply caputa headlike protuberance on an organ or structure mogula bump on a ski slope nub, nubblea small lump or protuberance snaga sharp protuberance wartany small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) projection any solid convex shape that juts out from something 2n the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out the protuberance of his belly Hyper condition, status a state at a particular time |
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