Usually means: Outward projection from a surface.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. protuberance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. protuberance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protuberance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. protuberance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. protuberance: Vocabulary.com
  6. protuberance: Wordnik
  7. protuberance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. protuberance: Wiktionary
  9. protuberance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. protuberance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. protuberance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. protuberance: Dictionary.com
  13. protuberance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Protuberance (disambiguation), Protuberance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Protuberance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. protuberance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. protuberance: Rhymezone
  18. Protuberance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. protuberance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. protuberance: Free Dictionary
  21. protuberance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. protuberance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protuberance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Protuberance: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Protuberance: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  5. protuberance: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.

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