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# warty

«warty» in Mova's school dictionary: **covered with warts, small hard lumps on the skin** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (warty, wartier, wartiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Warty means covered with warts, small hard lumps on the skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#m1)

2) Warty means having a lumpy, bumpy surface like warts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons toads are often described as warty, and some animals and plants have warty skin to look less tasty or to hide. In stories witches and goblins are sometimes given warty noses. Phrases: warty skin, warty toad, warty nose.

### examples

- The warty toad sat under a stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x1)
- The witch in the story had a warty green nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x2)
- Some pumpkins are warty and bumpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x3)
- The warty newt has rough, dark skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x4)
- Toads are warty, but frogs are usually smooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x5)
- The old tree had a warty, knobbly trunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x6)
- The goblin rubbed his warty hands together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x7)
- A ridge of inky water rushed foaming mountainously on his board, and behind that ridge came a vast warty head that gurgled and groaned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/warty/#x8)

### note

Comparative wartier, wartiest. Myth: touching a toad does NOT give you warts; warts are caused by a virus spread between people. Calling a person warty is rude.

### Trees and pragmatics

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