wart : Idioms & Phrases

noun a fungous disease of alfalfa which forms white excrescences at the base of the stem

(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.

noun a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus
verruca acuminata; genital wart; condyloma acuminatum.

noun a wart occurring on the sole of the foot
- pressure causes plantar warts to develop a painful callus around the soft center

noun fungous disease causing dark warty spongy excrescences in the eyes of potato tubers

noun fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers
Synchytrium endobioticum.

noun a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus
verruca acuminata; genital wart; condyloma acuminatum.

(Zoöl.) Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch&oe;rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch&oe;rus Æthiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Æliani) is native of the coasts of the Red Sea.

(Zoöl.), 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.