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Noun: wart  wort
  1. Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
     
  2. An imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)
     
  3. (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus
    - verruca

Derived forms: warts

Type of: blemish, bulge, bump, defect, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, imperfection, imperfectness, jut, keratosis, mar, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

Encyclopedia: Wart