In this gable was no window, chimney, ornament, or protuberance of any kind.
Cainy Ball and Joseph, who performed this latter operation, were if possible wetter than the rest; they resembled dolphins under a fountain, every protuberance and angle of their clothes dribbling forth a small rill.
The protuberanceat its equator must, no doubt, be attributed to the high velocity with which the planet is rotating.
It will be obvious that the nearer the disturbing body approaches to the earth the greater is the leverage (if we may use the expression) which is afforded by the protuberance at the equator.
The sun takes twenty-five days to complete a rotation, and the protuberance appropriate to so low a velocity is not appreciable.
He observed on one of these eminences a protuberance that looked like a mosque.
That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
Everybody knows that the earth is not a sphere, but there is a protuberance at the equator, so that, as our school books tell us, the earth is shaped like an orange.
It is well known that this protuberance is due to the rotation of the earth on its axis, by which the equatorial parts bulge out by centrifugal force.
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached.
A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.
A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
Food is served up in wooden bowls, of a very wide and simple form, and of various sizes, generally carved, with much patient application, out of a large knot or protuberance of the side of a tree.
He saw a brown protuberanceon the side of a great tree, above where the branches began, not twoscore yards distant from him, and that brown protuberance moved slightly.
It was evident that the protuberance was watching him as he was watching it.
Before this occurred, however, the tension was so great that one large portion of the protuberance where it was weakest broke away, and began to move around the earth at some considerable distance from it.
These astronomers adduce strong evidence that the earth once rotated so rapidly that the equatorial protuberance was almost at the point of separation from the planet as a ring.
The entire length of head from the posterior part of the occipital protuberance to the end of the muzzle should be 12 inches, or more, in dogs, and 11 inches, or more, in bitches.
The length from end of nose to stop (midway between the eyes) should be not less than that from stop to back of occipital protuberance (peak).
The species of Geophagus act in the same manner; and in this genus, a conspicuous protuberance becomes developed on the forehead of the males during the breeding-season.
Miller tells of a West Point student who had an elongation of the coccyx, forming a protuberance which bulged very visibly under the skin.
A slight fleshy protuberance depended from the cicatrix of the humerus and shoulder-joint of the left side, and until the age of ten there was one on the right side.
Exercise at the riding school always gave him great distress, and the protuberance would often chafe until the skin was broken, the blood trickling into his boots.
Her countenance was still muffled as before, the awful protuberance rose from her shoulders, and the same band which Mrs. Sullivan had alluded to during their interview, was bound about the upper part of her forehead.
It is distinguished from other Baboons by having a large protuberance on either cheek, which is marked with numerous red, blue, and purple stripes.
It bears in form a general resemblance to the Camel; but, instead of a protuberance on the back, it has one on the breast.
The Pintado is somewhat larger than the common hen; the head is bare of feathers, and covered with a naked skin of a bluish colour; on the top is a callous protuberance of a conical form.
The central capsule in the Diplosphaerida is usually enclosed in the inner shell; often it completely fills up the latter, or drives out a caecalprotuberance through each mesh; but these processes rarely unite outside.
The central capsule of this species exhibited a conicalprotuberance around the base of each individual spine.
Cortical shell thick walled, with a thickened ring-shaped protuberance in the greatest breadth of both chambers.
Struma, a wen; a swelling or protuberance of any organ.
Mrs. Priestly in vain endeavoured to reduce the protuberance of hair on the right side, so as not to betray the origin of the wig.
But after a while the irascible vicar had succeeded in brushing out the tufts of his false head of hair on the right, and simultaneously the continued efforts of Mrs. Priestly had reduced the right-hand protuberance in the wig of her husband.
The protoplasm of the other protuberance divides into many small masses, furnished with cilia, the spermatozoids or male cells.
Each protuberance bursts, and some of the spermatozoids come in contact with and are absorbed by the oosphere, which then secretes a cell-wall, and after a time germinates.
Thorax with a bosom-like protuberance on one side.
Here, look over there: on that ice-field there is a protuberance produced by the pressure of the icebergs; we call that a hummock; if that protuberance was submerged to its base we should call it a calf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protuberance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
