protuberant
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Protuberant lumps of ice thrown up by some pressure upon a field or floe, or any other frozen plane.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
For these Adventitious Corpuscles Associating themselves with the Protuberant Particles of the Surface of a Colour'd Body, must necessarily alter their Bigness, and will most commonly alter their Shape.
From Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) by Boyle, Robert
Once upon a Time there was a slim Girl with a Forehead which was Shiny and Protuberant, like a Bartlett Pear.
From Fables in Slang by Newman, Clyde J.
Protuberant: rising or produced above the surface or general level.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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