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# wart

«wart» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, hard, rough lump that grows on the skin, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wart, warts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wart is a small, hard, rough lump that grows on the skin, often on hands or feet, caused by a virus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#m1)

2) A wart can be any small lump on a plant or animal's skin, like on a toad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons warts are common and usually harmless; they can spread by touch, so do not pick them, and keep feet covered in changing rooms (a wart on the foot is called a verruca or plantar wart). In stories witches are often drawn with warts. Phrases: «warts and all» (including all the bad parts), «a verruca».

### examples

- I have a wart on my finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x1)
- Don't pick at a wart; it can spread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x2)
- The doctor froze the wart to remove it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x3)
- Wear flip-flops in the changing room to avoid a verruca, a wart on the foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x4)
- The witch in the picture had a wart on her nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x5)
- Toads have bumpy skin, but you can't catch warts from them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x6)
- He told the story of his trip, warts and all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x7)
- Warthogs have lumps on their faces that look like warts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/#x8)

### note

Countable: «a wart». Myth: you do not get warts from touching toads or frogs; they come from a human virus. «Warts and all» means showing the bad things as well as the good.

### In the corpora

- [Warts on people are caused by a virus that passes between people, not by toads; the bumps on a toad are glands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue/15/)
- [A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.