Wart

n.	1.
	1.	(Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillæ, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
	2.	(Bot.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. Fig wart (Med.) a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart. Wart cress (Bot.) the swine's cress. See under Swine. - L. A. Duhring. Wart snake (Zool.) any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus Acrochordus, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. Wart spurge (Bot.) a kind of wartwort (Euphorbia Helioscopia).

Noun	1.	wart - any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
	2.	wart - (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus Synonyms: verruca

wart - A small, crocky feature that sticks out of an otherwise clean design. Something conspicuous for localised ugliness, especially a special-case exception to a general rule. For example, in some versions of "csh(1)", single quotes literalise every character inside them except "!". In ANSI C, the "?" syntax used for obtaining ASCII characters in a foreign environment is a wart. See also miswart.

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