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Definition of Protruding
1. Adjective. Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary. "A pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck"
Similar to: Protrusive
Definition of Protruding
1. Verb. (present participle of ''protrude'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Protruding
1. protrude [v] - See also: protrude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protruding
Literary usage of Protruding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Geological survey, Edward Hitchcock (1835)
"That gneiss range in the central parts of the State, which lies east of the
Worcester mica slate, abounds in veins and protruding masses of granite: but I ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"1, 2), while the same tone • By these protruding ends the coil is supported
without any vowel character would be repre- : on- two bridges of a sound-board. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... are brown to black; the hair black, short and frizzly or woolly; the no« flat
and broad; the lips thick and protruding, while prognathism is universal. ..."
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