WARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warty mean? 

• WARTY (adjective)
  The adjective WARTY has 1 sense:

1. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts

  Familiarity information: WARTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

verrucose; wartlike; warty

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Derivation:

wart ((pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus)

 Context examples 

Histologic variants include papillary carcinoma, warty carcinoma, and squamotransitional carcinoma.

(Human Papillomavirus-Related Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologic variants include basaloid carcinoma and warty carcinoma.

(Human Papillomavirus-Related Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an exophytic, warty, and slow growing tumor affecting predominantly older men.

(Laryngeal Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an exophytic, warty, slow growing tumor, usually affecting older males.

(Oral Cavity Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A human papillomavirus-related cervical squamous cell carcinoma characterized by the presence of a warty surface and koilocytotic atypia.

(Cervical Warty Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A highly differentiated variant of cervical squamous cell carcinoma characterized by the presence of a warty surface and stromal invasion with pushing borders.

(Cervical Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

I thought, too, of the glimpse I had in the light of Lord John's torch of that bloated, warty, blood-slavering muzzle.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is characterized by numerous flesh-colored warty papules on the back of the hands, medial aspect of the feet, knees, and elbows.

(Acrokeratosis Verruciformis, NCI Thesaurus)

For one moment I had a vision of a horrible mask like a giant toad's, of a warty, leprous skin, and of a loose mouth all beslobbered with fresh blood.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)