protruding
adjective
[ prəˈtruːdɪŋ ]
• sticking out; projecting.
• "a stocky guy with a furrowed brow and a protruding bottom lip"
protrude
verb
• extend beyond or above a surface.
• "something like a fin protruded from the water"
Similar:
stick out,
jut,
jut out,
poke out,
project,
stand out,
come through,
peek,
poke,
stick up,
hang out,
loom (out),
extend,
obtrude,
balloon,
bulge (out),
swell (out),
pouch (out),
pooch (out),
protuberate,
sticking out,
jutting,
jutting out,
standing out,
prominent,
protuberant,
proud,
obtrusive,
overhanging,
projecting,
bulging,
bulbous,
swollen,
distended,
goofy,
protrusive,
outjutting,
excrescent,
gibbous,
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘thrust something forward or onward’): from Latin protrudere, from pro- ‘forward, out’ + trudere ‘to thrust’.
