callus

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: cal=lus

CIDE DICTIONARY

callus, n. [L. See Callous.].

•  Same as Callosity  [1913 Webster]
•  The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

callus, n.
1 a hard thick area of skin or tissue.
2 a hard tissue formed round bone ends after a fracture.
3 Bot. a new protective tissue formed over a wound.

Etymology

L

THESAURUS

callus

Philistinism, armor, benign tumor, callosity, callousness, cancer, carcinoma, corn, cyst, excrescence, flintiness, formidable defenses, fungosity, fungus, growth, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, imperviousness, induration, insensitiveness, insensitivity, intumescence, inuredness, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, obduracy, obdurateness, outgrowth, proud flesh, rhinoceros hide, sarcoma, stoniness, thick skin, tumor, verruca, wart, wen