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1. (n.) excrescence
an abnormal outgrowth, usu. harmless, on an animal or vegetable body.
2. excrescence
any disfiguring addition.
3. excrescence
abnormal growth or increase.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < ML)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
2. (noun) excrescence
(pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
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1. (noun) excrescence
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; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant
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