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Wart : (noun)
1: any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or
animals)
2: (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin;
caused by a virus [syn: verruca]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.]
1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papill[ae], and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them.
2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
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 (Zo["o]l.), 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).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Wart :
A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise
clean design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness,
especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For
example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes
literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C,
the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a
foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.
[{Jargon File]
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Wart : n. A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise
clean design. Something conspicuous for localized ugliness, especially
a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some
versions of `csh(1)', single quotes literalize every character inside
them except `!'. In ANSI C, the `??' syntax used for obtaining ASCII
characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.
Based on Jargon File : [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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Wart : Wart: A local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact. The contact can be with a wart on
someone else or one on oneself (autoinoculation).
Warts that occur on the hands or top of the feet are called "common warts." A wart on the sole (the plantar surface) of the foot is a plantar wart (and can be quite painful). Genital (venereal)
warts are located on the genitals and are transmitted by sexual contact; they are a form of STD (sexually transmitted disease).
Warts are nothing new. The word "wart" is from Old English. As far back as the 8th century, a "wart" was, well, a wart.
The medical name for a wart is "verruca", the Latin for wart. A common wart is a "verruca vulgaris". A wart in medicine is also sometimes called by its Spanish name, "verruga".
Based on Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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