Noun

• S: (n) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings) "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) excrescence ((pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
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• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) process, outgrowth, appendage (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant) "a bony process"
• S: (n) horn (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)
• S: (n) horn (any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn)
• S: (n) crest (a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal)
• S: (n) pseudopod, pseudopodium (temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion)
• S: (n) flagellum (a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa))
• S: (n) hair (a filamentous projection or process on an organism)
• S: (n) cirrus (a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile)
• S: (n) spine (a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin)
• S: (n) aculea (small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects)
• S: (n) style (a slender bristlelike or tubular process) "a cartilaginous style"
• S: (n) villus (a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane)
• S: (n) tail (the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body)
• S: (n) fetlock (projection behind and above a horse's hoof)
• S: (n) tentacle (any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion)
• S: (n) arista (bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies)
• S: (n) acromion, acromial process (the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade)
• S: (n) ala (a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism) "the alae of the nose"; "the alae of a maple seed"; "the flat petals of a pea blossom are alae"
• S: (n) alveolar arch (the part of the upper or lower jawbones in which the teeth are set)
• S: (n) alveolar ridge, gum ridge, alveolar process (a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth)
• S: (n) acrosome (a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg)
• S: (n) caruncle, caruncula (an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds)
• S: (n) condyle (a round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone)
• S: (n) coronoid process, processus coronoideus (a sharp triangular process projecting from a bone)
• S: (n) epicondyle (a projection on a bone above a condyle serving for the attachment of muscles and ligaments)
• S: (n) fimbria (thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube))
• S: (n) apophysis ((anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra)
• S: (n) spicule, spiculum (small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals)
• S: (n) osteophyte (small abnormal bony outgrowth)
• S: (n) papilla (a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather)
• S: (n) papilla (a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell) "the papillae of the tongue"
• S: (n) appendix, vermiform appendix, vermiform process, cecal appendage (a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch)
• S: (n) mastoid, mastoid process, mastoid bone, mastoidal (process of the temporal bone behind the ear at the base of the skull)
• S: (n) styloid process (extends from the base of the temporal bone)
• S: (n) pterygoid process (two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone)
• S: (n) tuberosity, tubercle, eminence (a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament)
• S: (n) zygomatic process (a slender process of the temporal bone that strengthens the zygomatic arch)
• S: (n) trochanter (one of the bony prominences developed near the upper extremity of the femur to which muscles are attached)
• S: (n) transverse process (one of two processes that extend from each vertebra and provide the point of articulation for the ribs)
• S: (n) odontoid process (a toothlike process at the back of 2nd vertebra of the neck)
• S: (n) metaphysis (the growing part of a long bone between the diaphysis and the epiphysis)
• S: (n) olecranon, olecranon process (process of the ulna that forms the outer bump of the elbow and fits into the fossa of the humerus when the arm is extended)
• S: (n) ridge (any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane)
• S: (n) excrescence ((pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body)
• S: (n) papilla ((botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf)
• S: (n) plant process, enation (a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ)
• S: (n) growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
• S: (n) excrescence ((pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body)
• S: (n) exostosis (a benign outgrowth from a bone (usually covered with cartilage))
• S: (n) polyp, polypus (a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane)
• S: (n) peduncle (the thin process of tissue that attaches a polyp to the body)
• S: (n) tumor, tumour, neoplasm (an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose)
• S: (n) hamartoma (a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ)
• derivationally related form