excrescence

Meaning of excrescence

noun
  1. a distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality.
    the males often have a strange excrescence on the tip of the snout

late Middle English: from Latin excrescentia, from excrescere ‘grow out’, from ex- ‘out’ + crescere ‘grow’.

Information about excrescence

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of excrescence is: excrescences.
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Hyphenation of excrescence

ex-cres-cence

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • excrescence is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

excrescence synonyms

Meaning bulge:

bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion

Meaning a tumour or other abnormal formation:

growth

Meaning a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape:

lump

Meaning an abnormal enlargement of a part of the body, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid:

swelling

Meaning a rounded lump or ball, especially at the end or on the surface of something:

knob

Meaning a small swelling or aggregation of cells in the body, especially an abnormal one:

nodule

Meaning something that grows out of something else:

outgrowth

Meaning a small, hard, benign growth on the skin, caused by a virus:

wart

Meaning the temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour:

boil

Meaning a small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus:

pustule

Meaning a severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria:

carbuncle

Translation of excrescence

Words that rhyme with excrescence

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