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- noun Plural form of
wart .
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Examples
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When zur Hausen asserted that human papilloma virus – which was known to induce skin warts – caused this cancer, not many people believed him.
The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Presentation Speech 2008
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I think "warts" is a grimly humorous way of brushing aside a long history of systematic incursions on other nation’s sovereignities.
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However, lips are not hyperkeratotic skin, as found in warts. 8 When salicylic acid is applied to the lips, it can erode through the outer stratum corneum to damage living skin layers beneathâthis creates a vicious cycle.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006
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At it's best SL is about as direct a connection to pure real-time expression warts and all that we have in a global shared media.
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One is genital warts, which is caused by HPV 6 and 11.
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A good plant should have plenty of strong, well-ripened roots; not covered with excrescences and warts, which is always a sign of ill health; but smooth and firm; with well-ripened, short-jointed wood.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann
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There are other outgrowths, called warts, occasionally met with in trees, and which are more closely connected with the central tissues of the stem, while at the same time they are not provided with buds, in which two particulars warts differ from gnaurs.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Your warts are the real you, with all your uniqueness that clearly comes through when you are in sync with your true self.
Forbes.com: News Michele Corey 2011
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He observed that the Ontario health insurance plan provides coverage for treatment of plantar warts, which doesn't seem to work, while it does not pay for treating common warts, which is more successful.
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He observed that the Ontario health insurance plan provides coverage for treatment of plantar warts, which doesn't seem to work, while it does not pay for treating common warts, which is more successful.
oroboros commented on the word warts
Straw in reverse.
July 22, 2007
bilby commented on the word warts
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts.
October 18, 2008