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Definition of Protuberate
1. Verb. Cause to bulge out or project.
2. Verb. Form a rounded prominence. "The starved child's belly protuberated"
Definition of Protuberate
1. v. i. To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.
Definition of Protuberate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To bulge outward, producing a rounded protuberance. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive rare) To cause to bulge outward. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protuberate
Literary usage of Protuberate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Bulge, protuberate, swell out. 9. Glow, expand, warm, thrill, heave, throb, grow
big. 8. Be puffed, be bloated, become irate- 11. Become larger, grow upon ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"Bulge, protuberate, s\v ¡11 out. 8. Be puffed, be bloated, become irate 9. ...
Swell Ont. Bulge, protuberate. Swelter, vn Be oppressed with heat, ..."
3. A Dictionary: English and Burmese by Adoniram Judson (1849)
"Bud, ». i. to protuberate before putting forth a leaf or flower, ... to protuberate
for a flower, vt to inoculate a plant, Bud, n. — of a leaf or flower, ..."
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