warty

comparative wartier · comparative more warty · superlative wartiest · superlative most warty

1. Having warts.

   a warty leaf

   2 more examples

   “Well that sounds like a good way; but that ain’t the way Bob Tanner done.” “No, sir, you can bet he didn’t, becuz he’s the wartiest boy in this town; and he wouldn’t have a wart on him if he’d knowed how to work spunk-water.[…]”

   1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 66

   Strictly speaking, the term toad should be restricted to members of the family Bufonidae, of which the common European and natterjack toads are good examples. But common parlance has seen the name applied to any warty tail-less amphibian.

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 36

   Synonyms: verrucose

2. Similar to a wart.

   a warty excrescence

   Synonyms: verrucous, wartish