| Noun | 1. | wart - any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, swelling, bump, prominence - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" |
| 2. | wart - an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness) imperfection, imperfectness - the state or an instance of being imperfect | |
| 3. | wart - (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus blemish, mar, defect - a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" common wart - a benign growth (often with a rough surface) condyloma acuminatum, genital wart, venereal wart, verruca acuminata - a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus juvenile wart - a small benign growth on the faces of hands of children plantar wart - a wart occurring on the sole of the foot; "pressure causes plantar warts to develop a painful callus around the soft center" pathology - the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases keratosis - a skin condition marked by an overgrowth of layers of horny skin |