Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
wart or some aspect of one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
Etymologies
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Examples
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Franny has blistering, wartlike pustules covering her face—
The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010
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The giant sequoias were the best; they had the thickest branches, although the wartlike bulges called burls on the coastal redwoods were good landing places, too.
Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997
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For years, it has been known the heart valves in lupus patients can become abnormally thick or develop wartlike growths called Libman-Sacks lesions.
THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994
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For years, it has been known the heart valves in lupus patients can become abnormally thick or develop wartlike growths called Libman-Sacks lesions.
THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994
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For years, it has been known the heart valves in lupus patients can become abnormally thick or develop wartlike growths called Libman-Sacks lesions.
THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN ROBIN DIBNER 1994
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Its feet were short, thickened tentacles, with wartlike excrescences that evidently served for traction.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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Its feet were short, thickened tentacles, with wartlike excrescences that evidently served for traction.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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Signs: Great, ulcerous, wartlike, blood-filled blisters that grew rapidly over the body.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire Randall Garrett 1957
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In the flowers of a species of _Oncidium_, communicated to me by Mr. Currey, the lip was divided into three segments perfectly distinct one from the other, but confluent with the column; the two side pieces had callosities at the upper edge close to the base, the central piece had a similar wartlike process in its centre.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The small, wartlike excrescences occurring sometimes in endocarditis may occasionally form a foundation on which a thrombi may develop.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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