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Excrescence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart.

n. A usually unwanted or unnecessary accretion: "Independent agencies were an excrescence on the Constitution” ( Los Angeles Times).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

n. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct

n. epenthesis of a consonant

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An abnormal superficial growth or appendage, as a wart or tubercle; anything which grows unnaturally, and without organic use, out of something else, as nutgalls; hence, a superfluity; a disfiguring addition.

n. Figuratively, an extravagant or excessive outbreak: as, “excrescences of joy,”

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

n. (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body

Word Usage

"Let us also note that the lower pole expands into the umbilical excrescence, which is less easy of perforation than those parts protected by the skin alone."

Antonym

anaptyxis

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

epenthesis

Cross Reference

cauliflower excrescence intervocalic

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

incumbrance outgrowth appendage burr knot

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

protuberance tonsillar stuffiness embellishment myocyte