Definitions for protuberance

Overview of noun protuberance

The noun protuberance has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence

(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")

2. protuberance

(the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out; "the protuberance of his belly")