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excrescence
[ ik-skres-uhns ]
noun
- an abnormal outgrowth, usually harmless, on an animal or vegetable body:
The patient had moles, swollen red dots, and other excrescences all over the body.
- a normal outgrowth, as hair or horns.
- any disfiguring addition.
- abnormal growth or increase.
- Phonetics. the insertion or addition of a sound, usually a consonant, as a result of articulatory interaction without grammatical or historical justification, like the t-sound in prince or the p-sound in hamster.
excrescence
/ ɪkˈskrɛsəns; ˌɛkskrɪˈsɛnʃəl /
noun
- a projection or protuberance, esp an outgrowth from an organ or part of the body
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Derived Forms
- excrescential, adjective
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Other Words From
- su·per·ex·cres·cence noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of excrescence1
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Example Sentences
Third, Oregon truffles have a very short shelf life, so the ones that weren’t underwhelming people with their woodenness were often terrifying them with their unholy excrescences.
Nor are these stories a mere excrescence of theology, but theology itself.
His cowl had half-fallen back, and made a strange excrescence on either side of his bull-neck.
There was a small excrescence or hut on the roof—about ten feet by six in dimensions—which formed—their residence.
Behind this, hiding itself as it were and almost invisible, nestled a smaller excrescence or offshoot.
Accordingly, the Crown has dwindled away in proportion to the unnatural and turgid growth of this excrescence on the Court.
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