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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
promontory /ˈprɒm(ə)nt(ə)ri/

▶noun (pl. promontories)

1 a point of high land jutting out into the sea or a lake.

2 Anatomy a protuberance on an organ or other bodily structure.

– origin C16: from L. promontorium, var. (influenced by mons, mont- ‘mountain’) of promunturium.

'promontory' also found in these Oxford entries:

bill - bluff - cape - foreland - head - highland - hook - horn - mull - Narragansett - ness - tongue

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