protrudentadj.
/prəˈtruːdnt/, U.S. /prəˈtrudnt/, /proʊˈtrudnt/ Protruding, projecting; prominent.
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1891 Ld. Houghton Stray Verses 9 Earnest underlip protrudent.
1893 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 180/2 The lofty, protrudent corner made by the dropping of the high~road into the curious transverse valley.
1953 College Art Jrnl. 12 154 Our remote descendents will themselves have the skin pallor, the protrudent eyes, the receding foreheads..of the species ‘Homo Televisio’.
2002 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 15 June (Metro section) 1 The swamp-green amphibian has a rather protrudent abdomen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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