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verruca

WordNet
  1. (n) verruca
    (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Verruca
    (Med) A wart.
  2. Verruca
    (Zoöl) A wartlike elevation or roughness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) verruca
    In pathology, a wart.
  2. (n) verruca
    In botany, a wart or sessile gland produced upon various parts of plants, especially upon a thallus.
  3. (n) verruca
    In zoology, a small, flattish, wart-like prominence; a verruciform tubercle.
  4. (n) verruca
    [capitalized] A genus of cirripeds, typical of the family Verrucidæ.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Verruca
    ve-rū′ka a wart, a glandular elevation: one of the wart-like sessile apothecia of some lichens
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. Cf. Verrugas

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. verruca, a wart.

Usage in literature

Autenreith speaks of a porcupine-man who was covered with innumerable verrucae. "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George M. Gould

Ex pede Herculem may often prove safe enough, but ex verruca Tullium is liable to mislead a hasty judge of his fellow-men. "The Poet at the Breakfast Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Verruca therefore means primarily a steep cliff, and only secondarily a wart. "The Letters of Cassiodorus" by Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

Its mildest phase is the so-called verruca necrogenica. "Essentials of Diseases of the Skin" by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

Verruca obliterata in bucca dextra et alia in nasi dextro latere. "Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus" by William MacGillivray