excrescence
an abnormal outgrowth, usually harmless, on an animal or vegetable body: The patient had moles, swollen red dots, and other excrescences all over the body.
a normal outgrowth, as hair or horns.
any disfiguring addition.
abnormal growth or increase.
Phonetics. the insertion or addition of a sound, usually a consonant, as a result of articulatory interaction without grammatical or historical justification, like the t-sound in prince or the p-sound in hamster.
Origin of excrescence
1Other words from excrescence
- su·per·ex·cres·cence, noun
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How to use excrescence in a sentence
And there have been the inevitable credulous excrescences of this bunk in some of the media.
It may be said that these were excrescences or city fashions; that one must not generalize.
The New Society | Walther RathenauForward from that stack her body stretched five 180 hundred feet to her bow without excrescences and without apertures.
The Women of Tomorrow | William HardWhen the tree-bug has deposited its eggs in the boughs of the fir-tree, excrescences arise, shaped like pearls.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsWhat surprises me most of all is the number of useless excrescences with which the author has encumbered his piece.
The English Stage | Augustin Filon
Then in the same second they both went out, at a point where the overhead excrescences made it difficult to stand upright.
Witching Hill | E. W. Hornung
British Dictionary definitions for excrescence
/ (ɪkˈskrɛsəns) /
a projection or protuberance, esp an outgrowth from an organ or part of the body
Derived forms of excrescence
- excrescential (ˌɛkskrɪˈsɛnʃəl), adjective
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