Wart

[wɔːt] or [wɔrt]

Definition

(noun.) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus.

(noun.) any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals).

(noun.) an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness).

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Definition

(n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

(n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.

Editor: Lucia

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Morbid excrescence, fungous growth.

Checked by Elmer

Definition

n. a small hard excrescence on the skin: a protuberance on trees.—adj. Wart′ed.—n. Wart′-hog a kind of hog found in Africa having a very large head and the cheeks furnished with large wart-like excrescences.—adj. Wart′less.—ns. Wart′weed the sun-spurge; Wart′wort a common name for certain lichens having a warty thallus: the wart-cress or swine-cress the cud-weed.—adj. Wart′y like a wart: overgrown with warts.

Editor: Shelton