as in swollen
sticking out from a surface usually with a curved or rounded shape
Lemurs are known for their protuberant eyes.
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Recent Examples of protuberant
His eyesight was failing and his eyes were bloodshot and protuberant.
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Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
Hours and hours of rubbing abrasive pumice across the roughened marble resulted in the lustrous surfaces of the sculpture, including the high sheen of Pan’s taut chest and ribs, muscular right arm, and protuberant belly.
—William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
Whereas Vaslav’s unorthodox looks infatuated many people, hers (protuberant teeth and lips, stocky body, flat chest, powerful thighs) alienated many.
—Alastair MacAulay, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
And the rear of the case is deeper to accommodate a protuberant rear camera—hinting that the next iPad will see a big camera upgrade.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
On another branch nearby was an Oustalet’s chameleon the size of a rabbit, rotating one of its protuberant eyeballs in stop-and-start circles.
—Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
Tourists were free to go to Gibraltar, which is literally a bright spot—an anomalous British territory on a headland on the sunny southern coast of Spain, just over a tenth of the area of Manhattan, most of which is protuberant rock.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
Bevelled edges flirt with object-ness, making the works seem fat material presentations, protuberant from walls, rather than pictures.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
Meanwhile, Angela is carrying on with protuberant tennis pro Tony Parker (Andrew Carter), who becomes the object of lust to both Edith and Angela's gay son, Lance (Tom DeTrinis).
—F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
Hours and hours of rubbing abrasive pumice across the roughened marble resulted in the lustrous surfaces of the sculpture, including the high sheen of Pan’s taut chest and ribs, muscular right arm, and protuberant belly.
—William A. Wallace, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
Whereas Vaslav’s unorthodox looks infatuated many people, hers (protuberant teeth and lips, stocky body, flat chest, powerful thighs) alienated many.
—Alastair MacAulay, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
And the rear of the case is deeper to accommodate a protuberant rear camera—hinting that the next iPad will see a big camera upgrade.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
On another branch nearby was an Oustalet’s chameleon the size of a rabbit, rotating one of its protuberant eyeballs in stop-and-start circles.
—Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
Tourists were free to go to Gibraltar, which is literally a bright spot—an anomalous British territory on a headland on the sunny southern coast of Spain, just over a tenth of the area of Manhattan, most of which is protuberant rock.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
Bevelled edges flirt with object-ness, making the works seem fat material presentations, protuberant from walls, rather than pictures.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
Meanwhile, Angela is carrying on with protuberant tennis pro Tony Parker (Andrew Carter), who becomes the object of lust to both Edith and Angela's gay son, Lance (Tom DeTrinis).
—F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for protuberant
bulging
Adjective
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Late Thursday night, the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection released its final report, a bulging 845-page account of a months-long effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.—
Nicole Hemmer,
CNN,
23 Dec. 2022
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One of the cockeyed squid's eyes is big, bulging and yellow.—
Elizabeth Preston,
Discover Magazine,
21 Feb. 2017
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“Protuberant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/protuberant. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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