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callus

English

  1. 🔊 (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
  2. 🔊 bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone
  3. 🔊 an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
  4. 🔊 form a callus or calluses
    “His foot callused”
  5. 🔊 cause a callus to form on
    “The long march had callused his feet”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 callo callus
  2. 🔊 callosidad callus

Similar words

callosity 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