excrescence
Meaning of excrescence
- 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.
- Languages in which excrescence is used:
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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:
Meaning a compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape:
Meaning an abnormal enlargement of a part of the body, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid:
Meaning a rounded lump or ball, especially at the end or on the surface of something:
Meaning a small swelling or aggregation of cells in the body, especially an abnormal one:
Meaning something that grows out of something else:
Meaning a small, hard, benign growth on the skin, caused by a virus:
Meaning the temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour:
Meaning a small blister or pimple on the skin containing pus:
Meaning a severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria:
Translation of excrescence
- German: Auswuchs
- French: excroissance
- Spanish: excrecencia
Words that rhyme with excrescence
faence, Bence, decumbence, incumbence, recumbence, resorbence, succumbence, superincumbence, Autofluorescence, Cence, Renascence, acaulescence, accrescence, acescence, acquiescence, adherescence, adjacence, adnascence, adolescence, adularescence, albescence, alkalescence, arborescence, ascence, autofluorescence, autoluminescence, beneficence, bioluminescence, calescence, calorescence, candescence, canescence, cathodofluorescence, cathodoluminescence, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, chemoluminescence, circumcrescence, circumjacence, coadjacence, coalescence, colliquescence, complacence, concaulescence, concrescence, concupiscence, connascence, consenescence, contabescence, convalescence