protuberant
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Lu, who has protuberant light brown eyes, small black ears and a floppy tongue, loves to snuggle with her four-legged foster siblings and stretch out in the sun, according to the contest website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The bumps push out candy-striped and aproned gowns; they are exaggerated by belted waists, and one particularly protuberant tummy doubles as a perch for a parakeet.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
He wrote that Carl Yastrzemski, “like so many great hitters, has oddly protuberant eyes.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
They’re absolute eye candy, the kind of bud that does it for the ’Gram — great pops of frilly color, their protuberant, pollen-gilded anthers sticking out like … well, exactly what they are.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
“I think so,” replied Ollivander, his protuberant eyes upon Harry’s face.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing protuberant
Dracula
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