protrude


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
protrude/prəˈtruːd/
verb extend beyond or above a surface.

■ (of an animal) cause (a body part) to do this.

– origin C17: from L. protrudere, from pro- ‘forward, out’ + trudere ‘to thrust’.
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