wart
5 definitions found
wart - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca
wart.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them.
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2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
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Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed
or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed
into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma.
Called also pointed wart, venereal wart. --L. A.
Duhring.
Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine.
Wart snake (Zool.), any one of several species of East
Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having
the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose
scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.
Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia
).
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wart - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
wart
n 1: any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or
animals)
2: an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of
a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)
3: (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin;
caused by a virus [syn: wart, verruca]
wart - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
wart
A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise
clean design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness,
especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For
example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes
literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C,
the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a
foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.
[Jargon File]
wart - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
wart
n.
A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean
design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially a
special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some
versions of csh(1), single quotes literalize every character inside
them except !. In ANSI C, the ?? syntax used for obtaining ASCII
characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.
wart - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "wart":
Lilliputian, Tom Thumb, bantam, banty, benign tumor, bilge,
birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boss,
bow, brownie, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl,
button, cahot, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, check, chine,
chit, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, corn, crack,
crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
diminutive, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, dwarf,
ear, elf, excrescence, fault, featherweight, fingerling, flange,
flap, flaw, freckle, fungosity, fungus, gall, gnarl, gnome, growth,
handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, homunculus, hump, hunch,
intumescence, jog, joggle, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl,
lentigo, lightweight, lip, loop, lump, malignant growth, manikin,
metastatic tumor, midge, midget, milium, mini, minikin, minnow,
minny, mole, morbid growth, mountain, mouse, needle scar, neoplasm,
nevus, nonmalignant tumor, nub, nubbin, nubble, outgrowth,
papilloma, peewee, peg, pimple, pip-squeak, pit, pock, pockmark,
pony, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, proud flesh, pustule, pygmy,
rib, ridge, rift, ring, runt, sarcoma, scab, scar, scratch,
sebaceous cyst, shoulder, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet,
spine, split, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, tit, track,
tubercle, tubercule, tumor, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp,
weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wisp
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