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}).