protuberant

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

protuberant
    adj 1: curving outward [syn: {bellied}, {bellying}, {bulbous},
           {bulging}, {bulgy}, {protuberant}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Protuberant \Pro*tu"ber*ant\, a. [L. protuberans, -antis, p. pr.
   of protuberare. See {Protuberate}.]
   Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the
   surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant
   joint; a protuberant eye. -- {Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "protuberant":
      beetling, bold, bulbous, bulging, distended, eminent, emissile,
      excrescent, excrescential, extruding, extrusive, gibbous, jutting,
      outstanding, overhanging, prognathous, projecting, prominent,
      protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberating,
      salient, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid

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