wart snake

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wart snake - 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.]
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     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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