ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

pyriform † , bulbous; tres atque rotundus [Lat.]; round as an orange, round as an apple,
round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.
3. SUPERFICIAL FORM
250. Convexity -- N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity † , bilge,
bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [U.S.].
thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].
swell.
intumescence; tumour [Brit.], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity [Anat.]; excrescence; hump,
hunch, bunch.
boss, embossment, hub, hubble; [convex body parts] tooth [U.S.], knob, elbow,
process, apophysis † , condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity † , tongue, dorsum, bump,
clump; sugar loaf &c (sharpness) 253; bow; mamelon † ; molar; belly, corporation † , pot
belly, gut [Coll.]; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange.
[convexities on skin] pimple, zit [Slang]; wen, wheel, papula [Med.], pustule, pock,
proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle † , corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus † ,
fungus, fungosity † , exostosis † , bleb, blister, blain † ; boil &c (disease) 655; airbubble † ,
blob, papule, verruca.
[convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [Vulg.], titty [Vulg.], boob
[Vulg.], knocker [Vulg.], pap, breast, dug, mammilla † .
[prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz
[Coll.].
peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.
cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster.
relief, relievo [It], cameo; bassorilievo † , mezzorilevo † , altorivievo; low relief, bas
relief [Fr.], high relief.
hill &c (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland † ; point of land, mole,
jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze † , ness.
V. be prominent &c adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.], bunch; jut out, stand
out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang
over, bend over; beetle.
render prominent &c adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase.
[become convex] belly out.
Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c v.; bossed, embossed, bossy,
nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated † , claviform; hummocky † , moutonne † , mammiliform † ;
papulous † , papilose † ; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous,
tuberculous; tumous † ; cornute † , odontoid † ; lentiform † , lenticular; gibbous; club shaped,
hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform † , subclavate † ,
torose † , ventricose † , verrucose † .
salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated &c, (expanded) 194.
251. Flatness -- N. flatness &c adj.; smoothness &c 255.
plane; level &c 213; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.
V. render flat, flatten; level &c 213.