Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a wart; of or relating to a wart or warts; covered with warts or wart-like excrescences; verrucous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts.
- adjective Of the nature of warts.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a marine univalve shell (
Ovulum verrucosum ), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having
warts - adjective similar to a wart
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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Alexander was a kind of warty red-orange creature who looked suspiciously like somebody in a suit.
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1 First described by Lewis and Clark; now known as the warty salamander
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines it as: 1) a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal (such as warty excrescences in the colon); 2) a disfiguring, extraneous, or unwanted mark or part (a blot); and 3) a by-product. "
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. mdash; After decades of trying to grow perfect, round, orange pumpkins, farmers have found many people believe nothing says Halloween like a warty, ...
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Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck!
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Catty, we are all confident there are many personalities under that warty green skin.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Again, while we wait for the Geek… 2010
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We are subject, she continues, to the “visual impact of all these warty, unappetizing Jews”.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. mdash; After decades of trying to grow perfect, round, orange pumpkins, farmers have found many people believe nothing says Halloween like a warty, ...
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Old, warty politicians scheming to get a piece of the pie.
The DOOM that came from Gallup. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Del, I don't know what kind of maidens you are used to kissing but a 3.5 inch turkey load tends to leave a "hickey" on my shoulder after each smooch ... even when that orange bead is held on the base of old Tom's warty neck!
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