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What does excrescence mean?

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Noun
  1. something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
  2. a disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct
  3. (phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
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In this species the casque or excrescence on the upper mandible is very slight.
The aristocracy, then, was regarded as a sort of cancer, or excrescence of society.
Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint.
And this leads us to a consideration of the doomsman himself, that foul excrescence upon our modern body politic.
It is an excrescence, not an essential garment like the shirt and breeches.
It would be absurd to dismiss it as an excrescence, and untypical of the American mind.

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