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  • 21protuberance — Synonyms and related words: bas relief, bellying, boldness, bulge, bulging, embossment, eminence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, feel, finish, gibbosity, gibbousness, grain, granular texture, high relief, indentation, jut, knub, low relief …

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  • 22relief — Synonyms and related words: ADC, CYSP sculpture, Medicaid, Medicare, abatement, agent, aid, aid and comfort, alimony, allayment, alleviation, allotment, allowance, alterative, alternate, alternative, anaglyph, anaglyptics, anaglyptography,… …

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  • 23salience — Synonyms and related words: arrantness, bas relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulging, conspicuousness, dignity, distinction, embossment, eminence, esteem, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame, flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity,… …

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  • 24salient — Synonyms and related words: airspace, area, arrant, arresting, bas relief, bellying, belt, blatant, bold, boldness, bulging, celebrated, chief, confines, conspicuous, continental shelf, corridor, country, department, distinctive, distinguished,… …

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  • 25tuberosity — Synonyms and related words: bas relief, bellying, boldness, bulging, camber, convexedness, convexity, convexness, embossment, eminence, excrescence, excrescency, excurvation, excurvature, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, low relief …

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  • 26gibbous — [ gɪbəs] adjective 1》 (of the moon) having the illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle. 2》 convex or protuberant. Derivatives gibbosity bɒsɪti noun gibbously adverb gibbousness noun Origin ME: fr …

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  • 27gibbosity — n. Convexity, protuberance, prominence, swelling, gibbousness …

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  • 28gibbous — /ˈgɪbəs/ (say gibuhs) adjective 1. humpbacked. 2. (of a heavenly body) so viewed as to appear convex on both margins, as the moon when more than half full but less than full. Also, gibbose /ˈgɪboʊs/ (say gibohs). {Latin gibbōsus humped}… …

  • 29caput — noun 1. a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula • Hypernyms: ↑bulge, ↑bump, ↑hump, ↑swelling, ↑gibbosity, ↑gibbousness, ↑jut, ↑ …

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  • 30crookback — I noun a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine • Syn: ↑humpback, ↑hunchback • Hypernyms: ↑cripple II adjective characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column …

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