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wart hog(medicine)
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fig wart(medicine)
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telangiectatic wart(medicine)

wart (iou)



wart noun.
[Old English wearte corresp. to Old Frisian warte, worte, Old Saxon warta, Old High German warza (Dutch wrat, German Warze), Old Norse varta, from Germanic.]
Medicine. A small, benign, usu. hard excrescence on the skin; esp. infectious squamous papilloma, which is caused by a virus and is common in children; condyloma. Also called verruca. OE.
soft wart: see SOFT adjective.
An unsightly protuberance; a disfiguring feature. E17.
warts and all colloq. with no attempt to conceal blemishes, inadequacies, or unattractive features or qualities.
C. Graves Betting shops, those terrible warts on the soul of Ireland.
Zoology & Botany. Any rounded excrescence on the skin of an animal or the surface of a plant. L18.
a. A very young subaltern. Military slang. L19.
b. An obnoxious or objectionable person. colloq. L19.
A. Macrae People..think Karl's a little wart because he says what he thinks.
c. A junior midshipman or naval cadet. Nautical slang. E20.
Comb.: wart-biter a large European bush-cricket, Decticus verrucivorus; wart-cress a small cruciferous plant with warty fruit, Coronopus squamatus, found in trampled ground; also called swine-cress; wart disease a disease of potatoes caused by the fungus Synchytrium endobioticum, which produces warty outgrowths on the tubers; warthog a wild pig, Phacochoerus aethiopicus, which has pronounced warts on the face and bristly grey skin, and is common on the African savannah; wart snake any of various stout-bodied aquatic non-venomous snakes of the family Acrochordidae, which have coarse three-spined scales and are found in SE Asia and northern Australia; also called file snake; wartweed any of several plants having an acrid milky juice reputed to cure warts; esp. sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia; wartwort = wartweed above.
warted adjective (a) covered with warts; (b) Botany & Zoology studded with wartlike knobs or excrescences; verrucose: E17.
wartless adjective M19.
wartlike adjective resembling (that of) a wart. L17.