protuberance

Example Sentences

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What’s more, he now possesses a fleshy protuberance on his forehead and a tentacle as long as his arm dangling from his chest.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

This so-called larchrymal saber is a bony protuberance just under their eye.

From National Geographic • May 5, 2018

Consisting of four different species in Spain, horseshoe bats may be distinguished from other bats by the horseshoe shape of their leaf-like nose protuberance.

From Scientific American • Aug. 31, 2017

It’s a pale, translucent, fleshy protuberance the size of a soccer ball that seems to glow in the dripping shade, its complicated folds an unnerving cross between boiled tripe and a sea sponge.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2015

She thought she could see the white protuberance of bone.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan