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Definition of protuberate

form a rounded prominence; "The starved child''s belly protuberated"
cause to bulge out or project

Derivational Morphology: protuberance, bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence

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