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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wart +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Franny has blistering, wartlike pustules covering her face—

    The Multiplying Menace Amanda Marrone 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Its feet were short, thickened tentacles, with wartlike excrescences that evidently served for traction.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • Its feet were short, thickened tentacles, with wartlike excrescences that evidently served for traction.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • Signs: Great, ulcerous, wartlike, blood-filled blisters that grew rapidly over the body.

    Despoilers of the Golden Empire Randall Garrett 1957

  • 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

  • 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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