excrescence
noun
an abnormal outgrowth, usually harmless, on an animal or vegetable body.
excrescential
-
a word derived from
excrescence.
Example Sentences
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His ugliness was not unamiable; it was accidental, external, excrescential.
From Dark Lady of the Sonnets by Bernard Shaw
Here, Dr. Faustus was still going down to very red and yellow perdition, under the superintendence of three green personages of a scaly humour, with excrescential serpents growing out of their blade-bones.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
