protuberancy

American  

[proh-too-ber-uhn-see, -tyoo-, pruh-] / proʊˈtu bər ən si, -ˈtju-, prə- /

noun

protuberancies plural

1. protuberance.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonprotuberancy
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• protuberancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of protuberancy

First recorded in 1645–55; protuber(ant) + -ancy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

protuberancy protuberancies

The marks were blewish, very small, and had no protuberancy above the skin.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

He was of that easy sort of feather-bed corpulency of form that betokens good-nature, and had none of that smooth, red, well-filled protuberancy, which indicates a choleric humour and a testy temper. 

From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John

He seems to go backwards and forwards with a torch, throwing knobs, jags, wrinkles, corrugations, protuberancies, cavities, horns, and snouts into terrifying illumination.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

But suffering it without rubbing or scratching, the itching tickling pain quickly grew languid, and within an hour I felt nothing at all, and the little protuberancies were vanish'd.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert