Excrescence meaning

ĭk-skrĕs'əns
An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart.
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A usually unwanted or unnecessary accretion.
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A normal outgrowth; natural appendage, as a fingernail.
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An abnormal or disfiguring outgrowth or addition, as a bunion.
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An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart.
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Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
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A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
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(phonetics) Epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t.
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Origin of excrescence

  • Middle English from Latin excrēscentia from neuter pl. of excrēscēns excrēscent- present participle of excrēscere to grow out ex- ex- crēscere to grow ker-2 in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. From Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excrēscere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + crēscere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).
    From Wiktionary

Excrescence Sentence Examples

  • " Opinion " is then no mere excrescence; it is the necessary sequel to " Truth."

  • Occasionally a knob or excrescence, formed by the residue of the glass beyond the point at which the base has been pinched together, remains as a silent witness of the process.

  • the siphonium described in connexion with the mandible), but filling also such curious organs as the frontal excrescence of Chasmorhynchus, the Brazilian bell-bird, the throat-bag of the adjutant stork, and the gular pouch of the bustard.

  • galla, oak-apple, from which comes the English "gall," meaning an excrescence on trees caused by certain insects.

  • The most probable supposition is that the cup is simply an excrescence or "enation" from the mouth of the flower-tube, and is connected with the fertilization of the flowers by insect agency.

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