protrude

Definitions


[prəˈtruːd], (Verb)

Definitions:
- extend beyond or above a surface
(e.g: something like a fin protruded from the water)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘thrust something forward or onward’): from Latin protrudere, from pro- ‘forward, out’ + trudere ‘to thrust’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries