WARTY

verrucose, warty, wartlike

(adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

warty (comparative wartier or more warty, superlative wartiest or most warty)

Having warts.

Similar to a wart.

Synonyms

• (similar to a wart): wartish

Anagrams

• watry

Source: Wiktionary


Wart"y, a.

1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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