warty

[ wawr-tee ]

/ ˈwɔr ti /

having warts; covered with or as with warts.

resembling a wart.

Nearby words

First recorded in 1475–85; wart + -y¹

Related formswart·i·ness, noun

Sometimes there is a warty thickening of the epidermis—lupus verrucosus.
Manual of Surgery|Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
He caught sight of the warty, scaly bulk of the monster at the extreme limit of the rays.
The Fifth-Dimension Tube|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
All this of the giant octopus—brown and warty and wrinkled and blas.
A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
At its other end was a heavy, warty fist, part of the anatomy of Baptiste, the industrious mechanic.
The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893|Various

The cacao of the criollo variety has pods the walls of which are thin and warty, with ten distinct furrows.
Cocoa and Chocolate|Arthur W. Knapp