Excrescence Definition

ĭk-skrĕsəns
excrescences
noun
excrescences
A normal outgrowth; natural appendage, as a fingernail.
Webster's New World
An abnormal or disfiguring outgrowth or addition, as a bunion.
Webster's New World
A usually unwanted or unnecessary accretion.
American Heritage

Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

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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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Other Word Forms of Excrescence

Noun

Singular:
excrescence
Plural:
excrescences

Origin of Excrescence

  • 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

  • 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

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