? Obs. [f. EXTUBERANT: see -ANCE.] a. The quality or condition of being extuberant. b. concr. Something that swells out or up; a swelling, projection, protuberance. lit. and fig. Also collect. in sing.
1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, 63. The internall hollowes of the extuberances of our artery.
1616. Chapman, Homer’s Hymns, Epil. All is extuberance and excretion all, That you your ornaments and glories call.
1786. Phil. Trans., LXXVI. 9. The least degree of extuberance in the surface of the metal.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. § 2 (1819), 104. The concave recess of the bone formed by the extuberances on each side.
