(n)bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencesomething that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings“the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”, “the hump of a camel”, “he stood on the rocky prominence”, “the occipital protuberance was well developed”, “the bony excrescence between its horns”