Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wart"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca
wart.]
1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papill[ae], and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them.

2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.

{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} (Zo["o]l.), 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}).

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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}]


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