wart
noun
a small, often hard, abnormal elevation on the skin, usually caused by a papomavirus.
wartlike
-
a word derived from
wart.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the mould causes blisters, scaly eruptions, wartlike growths.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this disease, noncancerous, wartlike growths cover the vocal cords of the victim, sometimes filling up the entire larynx so that the child can barely breathe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The EC-121 is an ungainly bird, its basically graceful lines awkwardly broken by wartlike plastic radar domes above and below the fuselage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the President also: > Had two small, wartlike growths removed from his right hand with an electric needle by a pair of Washington dermatologists in his White House bedroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smilisca sila is distinguished from other members of the genus by the presence of small wartlike protrusions and peculiar white, pustular spots on the dorsum.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
