protubero

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prō-tūbĕro, āre, v. n.,

I to swell or bulge out , to grow forth (late Lat.), Sol. 45: poma, id. 46 fin.

2 Trop.: densa ne supra modum protuberent, Aus. Idyll. 13, praef. § 8; cf. id. ib. 16, 10.