(gibbosity)
51nub — n 1. knob, knop, pommel, nubbin, nubble; bump, hump, node, nodule; protuberance, protrusion, gall, growth, excrescence, tubercle, tuberculum, Bot. tubercule, tuberosity, tumor; bulge, swelling, tumescence, gibbosity, Bot., Zool. boss; knot, bunch …
52projection — n 1. protrusion, jut, overhang, extrusion, excurvation; beetling, jutting, impendence, hang; prominence, eminence, excrescence, tuberosity, gibbosity, salience, convexness, convexity; protuberance, outgrowth, Anat., Bot. apophysis, Archit.… …
53prominence — n 1. conspicuousness, noticeableness, outstandingness, salience; pointedness, markedness, poignancy, glaringness, egregiousness, flagrance; singularity, uniqueness, peculiarity, uncommonness, specialness, particularity; distinguishability,… …
54protuberance — n 1. prominence, eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, tuberosity, convexity. 2. bulge, bow, swelling, bell, bump, lump, hump, tumescence; outgrowth, Anat., Bot. apophysis, Archit. apophyge; blister, bubble, bleb, pimple, welt, wart; knob, knurl,… …
55swell — v 1. dilate, expand, extend, spread, outspread, spread out; distend, inflate, bloat, puff out, blow up, dome; intumesce, tumefy; fill out, fatten; lengthen, elongate, stretch. 2. increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, augment; wax, grow larger,… …
56bulge — [n] swollen object appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence,… …
57hump — [n] swelling, projection bulge, bump, convexedness, convexity, dune, elevation, eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, hill, hummock, hunch, knap, knob, knurl, kyphosis, mound, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, ridge, swell, tumescence; concepts… …
58gibbous — a. convex; hump backed; applied to moon between half and full. ♦ gibbosity, n. ♦ gibbus, n. hump …
59caput — noun 1. a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula • Hypernyms: ↑bulge, ↑bump, ↑hump, ↑swelling, ↑gibbosity, ↑gibbousness, ↑jut, ↑ …
60crookback — I noun a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine • Syn: ↑humpback, ↑hunchback • Hypernyms: ↑cripple II adjective characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column …
