| Wart | n. [ OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. vårta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. [ 1913 Webster ]
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 (Zool.), 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). [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Wart hog | (Zool.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacochœrus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacochœrus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (Phacochœrus Aeliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Warty | a. 1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. [ 1913 Webster ]
Warty egg (Zool.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations. [ 1913 Webster ]
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