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Protuberant describes something that sticks out or swells forward. It is an adjective, so it names a look, not a thing. The usual pictures are protuberant eyes (eyes that bulge) or a protuberant belly. The tone is formal and a bit clinical — the sort of word a textbook uses when it describes a body as if it were a specimen. Used about a person, it can sound , even if you do not mean it that way. For objects it is safer: a vase with a protuberant middle, a protuberant knocker on a door. Though actually, outside science writing, many people never use this word at all.
隆起的;突出的
組成From Latin protuberans, protuberantis, the present participle of protuberare, “to swell out” (the same family as protuberance).
同家族的字
- protuberancethe noun from the same Latin stem
- tuberfrom the same Latin tūber, “swelling”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
protuberantadj
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Swelling or bulging outward.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。