† extuberance ? Obs.
(ɛkˈstjuːbərəns)
[f. extuberant: see -ance.]
a. The quality or condition of being extuberant. b. concr. Something that swells out or up; a swelling, projection, protuberance. lit. and fig. Also collect. in sing.
| 1607 T. Walkington Opt. Glass 122 The internall hollowes of the extuberances of our artery. 1616 Chapman Homer's Hymns Epil., All is extuberance and excretion all, That you your ornaments and glories call. 1786 Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 9 The least degree of extuberance in the surface of the metal. 1802 Paley Nat. Theol. viii. §2 (1819) 104 The concave recess of the bone formed by the extuberances on each side. |