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Knoblike Protuberances Crossword Clue

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noun

• A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane. For example the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.

• One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

• A bump or protrusion on the top of the cap.

• The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.

40%7 A knoblike protrusion
noun

• a small knob

40%6 Embryology: A budlike or knoblike protuberance or swelling, such as the embryonic outgrowth connecting the yolk sac to the midgut in the development of the digestive system
noun

• a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work

• the hereditary derivation of an individual

• an eye having a single lens

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New York Times05 Sep 1991 Down 19
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