protruding
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’.
'protruding' also found in these Oxford entries:
beer belly
- boss
- breast
- bulldog
- chameleon
- chin
- crop
- flat-pack
- goofy
- Hurler's syndrome
- jagged
- paunch
- pollack
- polyp
- pot belly
- projection
- protrusion
- protuberance
- protuberant
- seton
- shelf
- slipped disc
- stargazer
- strake
- thumbscrew
- tube foot
