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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protuberance |
| Synonyms: | accretion, enlargement, knob, lump, outgrowth, pimple, wart |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | growth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tumor |
| Synonyms: | cancer, cancroid, excrescence, fibrous tissue, fibrousness, fungus, lump, mole, outgrowth, parasite, polyp, swelling, thickening, wen |
| Main Entry: | hump |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swelling, projection |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, convexedness, convexity, dune, elevation, eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, hill, hummock, hunch, knap, knob, knurl, kyphosis, mound, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, ridge, swell, tumescence |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | outgrowth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | projection |
| Synonyms: | bulge, enlargement, excrescence, jut, node, offshoot, outcrop, process, prolongation, prominence, protuberance, shoot, sprout, swelling |
| Antonyms: | ingrowth |
| Main Entry: | pimple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small swelling on the skin |
| Synonyms: | abscess, acne, beauty spot, blackhead, blemish, blister, boil, bump, carbuncle, caruncle, excrescence, furuncle, hickey, inflammation, lump, papula, papule, pustule, spot, whitehead, zit |
| Main Entry: | protuberance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lump, outgrowth |
| Synonyms: | bulge, bump, excrescence, jut, jutting, knob, outthrust, process, projection, prominence, protrusion, swelling, tumor |
| Antonyms: | depression, ingrowth, sinkage |
| Main Entry: | ramification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consequence, development |
| Synonyms: | bifurcation, branch, branching, breaking, complication, consequence, divarication, division, excrescence, extension, forking, offshoot, outgrowth, partition, radiation, result, sequel, subdividing, subdivision, upshot |
| Antonyms: | cause |
| Main Entry: | zit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pimple |
| Synonyms: | abscess, acne, blackhead, blemish, bump, carbuncle, excrescence, goober, goophead, papula, papule, pustule, whitehead |
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