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Verruca

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Medicine A wart.

n. Biology A wartlike projection, as on the back of a toad or on some leaves.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A wart, especially one that grows on the foot, caused by a virus.

n. A rounded projection or wart.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A wart.

n. A wartlike elevation or roughness.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In pathology, a wart.

n. In botany, a wart or sessile gland produced upon various parts of plants, especially upon a thallus.

n. In zoology, a small, flattish, wart-like prominence; a verruciform tubercle.

n. [capitalized] A genus of cirripeds, typical of the family Verrucidæ.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

Word Usage

"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."

Cross Reference

verruca necrogenica verruca plana verruca senilis

Variant

verrucae

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wart verruga