Found 5 hits - Term: wart, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wart \wart\, n. oe. werte, as. wearte; akin to d. wrat, g.
warze, ohg. warza, icel. varta, sw. varta, dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to e. wort; or cf. l. verruca
wart.
1913 webster
1. med. a small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them.
1913 webster
2. an excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically bot., a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
1913 webster
fig wart, moist wart med., a soft, bright red, pointed
or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed
into groups of large size. it is a variety of condyloma.
called also pointed wart, venereal wart. --l. a.
duhring.
wart cress bot., the swine's cress. see under swine.
wart snake zool., any one of several species of east
indian colubrine snakes of the genus acrochordus, having
the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose
scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.
wart spurge bot., a kind of wartwort euphorbia
helioscopia.
1913 webster
see also:
fig wart moist wart pointed wart venereal wart wart cress swine
wart snake acrochordus wart spurge euphorbia helioscopia
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wart
n 1: any small rounded protuberance as on certain plants or
animals
2: pathology a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin;
caused by a virus syn: verruca
see also:
verruca
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
163 moby thesaurus words for "wart":
lilliputian, tom thumb, bantam, banty, benign tumor, bilge,
birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boss,
bow, brownie, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl,
button, cahot, callosity, callus, cancer, carcinoma, check, chine,
chit, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, corn, crack,
crater, craze, cyst, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
diminutive, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, dwarf,
ear, elf, excrescence, fault, featherweight, fingerling, flange,
flap, flaw, freckle, fungosity, fungus, gall, gnarl, gnome, growth,
handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, homunculus, hump, hunch,
intumescence, jog, joggle, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl,
lentigo, lightweight, lip, loop, lump, malignant growth, manikin,
metastatic tumor, midge, midget, milium, mini, minikin, minnow,
minny, mole, morbid growth, mountain, mouse, needle scar, neoplasm,
nevus, nonmalignant tumor, nub, nubbin, nubble, outgrowth,
papilloma, peewee, peg, pimple, pip-squeak, pit, pock, pockmark,
pony, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, proud flesh, pustule, pygmy,
rib, ridge, rift, ring, runt, sarcoma, scab, scar, scratch,
sebaceous cyst, shoulder, shrimp, slip, small fry, snip, snippet,
spine, split, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, tit, track,
tubercle, tubercule, tumor, twist, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp,
weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wisp
- [4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
wart n. a small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise
clean design. something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially
a special-case exception to a general rule. for example, in some
versions of `csh1', single quotes literalize every character inside
them except `'. in ansi c, the `??' syntax used for obtaining ascii
characters in a foreign environment is a wart. see also miswart.
see also:
crock feature clean miswart
- [5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
wart
a small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise
clean design. something conspicuous for localised ugliness,
especially a special-case exception to a general rule. for
example, in some versions of "csh1", single quotes
literalise every character inside them except "". in ansi c,
the "?" syntax used for obtaining ascii characters in a
foreign environment is a wart. see also miswart.
jargon file
see also:
crock feature clean miswart jargon file
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Wart, definition of term: Wart
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Wart Hog, definition of term: Wart Hog
wart+hog_pag1.html Genital Wart
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Genital Wart, definition of term: Genital Wart
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