noun
- Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
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