warty

[ wawr-tee ]

/ ˈwɔr ti /

having warts; covered with or as with warts.

resembling a wart.

Origin of warty

First recorded in 1475–85; wart + -y¹

wart·i·ness, noun

Sometimes there is a warty thickening of the epidermis—lupus verrucosus.

Manual of Surgery |Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
He caught sight of the warty, scaly bulk of the monster at the extreme limit of the rays.

The Fifth-Dimension Tube |William Fitzgerald Jenkins
All this of the giant octopus—brown and warty and wrinkled and blas.

A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) |Henry Smith Williams
At its other end was a heavy, warty fist, part of the anatomy of Baptiste, the industrious mechanic.

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 |Various

The cacao of the criollo variety has pods the walls of which are thin and warty, with ten distinct furrows.

Cocoa and Chocolate |Arthur W. Knapp