warted, ppl. a.
(ˈwɔːtɪd)
[f. wart n. + -ed2.]
1. Covered with warts. rare.
| 1615 A. Niccholes Marr. & Wiving vi. 17 Lip-bearded, as wiches, with their warted antiquity and age. 1689 N. Lee Princess Cleve iii. i, She's warted all over like a pumpl'd Orange. 1876 Blackmore Cripps xlix, That heavy gate..banged her chubby knees, and it bruised her warted hand. |
2. Bot., Zool., etc. Studded with wart-like knobs or excrescences; verrucose.
| 1681 Grew Musæum ii. §iii. ii. 230 The Warted Gourd. 1763 Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. IV. 170 The Zatte melon..its coat is warted like that of the Cantaleupe. 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot., Verrucosa capsula, a warted capsule. Ibid., Verrucosum folium, a Warted leaf. 1802 Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 296 Warted Newt. 1822 Hortus Anglicus II. 339 Lapsana Zacintha. Warted Nipple Wort. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 153 Seeds very numerous, minute, slightly warted. 1852 Dickens Bleak Ho. xxviii, The gnarled and warted elms. 1885 H. O. Forbes Nat. Wand. E. Archip. 469 Blocks of rugged and warted coral-like limestone. |