· something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

Synonym(s): bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence

Hypernym(s): projection