Excrescence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXCRESCENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an outgrowth from the surface, also EXCRESCENCY
• an unattractive or superfluous object or feature
• a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality
• 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.
• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
• (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
• an outgrowth from the surface
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal

Words related to EXCRESCENCE

excrescences25 excrescential24

Words that contain EXCRESCENCE

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How to use EXCRESCENCE in a sentence

• During the first year he has no horns, but a horny excrescence, which is short and rough, and covered with a thin hairy skin.
• His cowl had half fallen back, and made a strange excrescence on either side of his bull neck.
• Immediately afterwards he had seen the curious, bird-like excrescence upon a tree nearby.
• It is rather its excrescence to be removed by every effort.
• I thought that this treatment of Indians was an excrescence upon a system that was intrinsically and mainly good.
• It is true that several of the States, separately, are encumbered with considerable debts, which are an excrescence of the late war.
• All the sap and nutriment of the state seemed to have been drawn to feed one bloated and unwholesome excrescence.
• Otherwise not an excrescence marred the face of nature.
• Toward the middle of the platform the longboat, half buried in the hull of the vessel, formed a slight excrescence.
• Possibly the excrescence does not so much mark a vestibule as a second shrine, like that which is said to have existed at the foot of the Belus Tower at Babylon.
• The smaller kinds had a round ball or excrescence on one side just below the head.
• He spoke of it as though it were a cancer or other painful excrescence, the removal of which would be to the sufferer a boon unspeakable.
• A child sees such an excrescence, such an offence upon proportion, in an immoderately long nose.
• Excessive development may result in an extra finger or toe, or in the production of some peculiar excrescence.
• If it refers to the future, the worker is having our heads off, severing from a fat and uncontrolled corpus a most unpleasant excrescence in a very shiny top-hat.
• Man falls upon every thing that comes in his Way, not the smallest Fruit or Excrescence of the Earth, scarce a Berry or a Mushroom, can escape him.
• Hitherto he had had the theory that footmen, valets and all male personal attendants were an inexcusable excrescence on the social fabric.
• The human nose is, at its best, a needless excrescence.
• The grim excrescence seemed to possess a horrible fascination for the multitude.
• The Dwarf Page is also an excrescence, and I plead guilty to all the censures concerning him.
• After all, before this higher beauty, royal pomp even seems only a coarse excrescence, and all would be better if the accessories of the rendering were very simple.
• Accordingly the crown has dwindled away, in proportion to the unnatural and turgid growth of this excrescence on the court.
• Vincent is nothing more, is Mont Garou, of which La Soufriere is a sort of lofty excrescence in the northwest, 4,048 feet high, and flanking the main peak at some distance away.

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