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Moist wart
(gcide) | Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca
wart.]
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1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them.
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2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
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Fig wart, Moist 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. --L. A.
Duhring.
Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine.
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}).
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