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Pronunciation: [pɹətɹˈuːʒənz] (IPA)

Protrusions are extrusions or protuberances that project from the surface of an object or material. Some synonyms for the word "protrusions" include bulges, bumps, humps, lumps, elevations, and prominences. These words describe the same physical appearance of a part of an object that extends beyond its normal shape or surface. Other synonyms for protrusions may depend on the context in which they are used, such as growths, knobs, or swellings in a medical setting, or ridges, projections, or spines in a geological context. Regardless of the context, synonyms for protrusions indicate an element that stands out and attracts attention.
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Usage examples for Protrusions

No chasing round the plate, no slidings off the fork, no subsequent protrusions of loose ends-just one dig, one whisk, one thrust, one gulp, and lo, yet another poet had been nourished.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim
From the lower part of this depend into the water large and small nutritive branches, each ending in a mouth surrounded by a circle of waving tentacles armed with batteries of thread-cells, while another set of hanging protrusions bear the grape-like reproductive organs.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell
He moved on in an oblique direction several feet, now creeping over the tops of the foundation arches, now skirting the extremities of protrusions in the ruined brick-work, now descending into dark slimy rubbish-choked chasms, until the rift suddenly diminished in all directions.
"Antonina"
Wilkie Collins

Famous quotes with Protrusions

  • Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.
    Tom Wolfe
  • She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there; she was enamoured of intensity and greatness, and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects; likely to seek martyrdom, to make retractations, and then to incur martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it. Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine affection.
    George Eliot

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