Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medicine A wart.
- noun Biology A wartlike projection, as on the skin of certain amphibians or on the surface of certain pollen grains.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a wart.
- noun In botany, a wart or sessile gland produced upon various parts of plants, especially upon a thallus.
- noun In zoology, a small, flattish, wart-like prominence; a verruciform tubercle.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of cirripeds, typical of the family Verrucidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A wart.
- noun (Zoöl.) A wartlike elevation or roughness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A
wart , especially one that grows on the foot, caused by avirus . - noun mycology A rounded projection or wart.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Its mildest phase is the so-called verruca necrogenica.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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But, thankfully, the verruca cluster on her right heel is history now.
fickle 2009
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But, thankfully, the verruca cluster on her right heel is history now.
package 2009
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Hog warts, after all, are exactly the kind of ingredient that would slot snugly into Heston's Blumenthal's repertoire, paired with gnat cataracts and shavings of unicorn verruca, perhaps.
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Do you ever get much opportunity to wear his shoes, or is it all flip-flops and verruca socks around the pool?
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A plantar wart (verruca plantaris) shows up on the sole of the foot (“plantar” means “foot”), and walking around barefoot can be all it takes to catch it.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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A plantar wart (verruca plantaris) shows up on the sole of the foot (“plantar” means “foot”), and walking around barefoot can be all it takes to catch it.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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A plantar wart (verruca plantaris) shows up on the sole of the foot (“plantar” means “foot”), and walking around barefoot can be all it takes to catch it.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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A wart (verruca), on the other hand, is an excessive growth of some skin structures.
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Carole Malone got evicted from Celebrity Big Brother because she's less famous than a verruca we had when we were six, Jackiey Budden got evicted from Celebrity Big Brother because she's about as likable as that verruca was when it started spraying frothy green pus into our eyes, and Jade Goody got evicted from Celebrity Big Brother because she's more racist than all of the Ku Klux Klan put together.
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