From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca
wart.]
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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.
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2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
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{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}).
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
venereal wart
n 1: a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus
[syn: {genital wart}, {venereal wart}, {condyloma
acuminatum}, {verruca acuminata}]
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