excrescence
noun
- Now Rare a normal outgrowth; natural appendage, as a fingernail
- an abnormal or disfiguring outgrowth or addition, as a bunion
See excrescence in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ĭk-skrĕsˈəns)
noun- An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart.
- A usually unwanted or unnecessary accretion: “Independent agencies were an excrescence on the Constitution” (Los Angeles Times).
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