OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32573

excrescence

/ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
excrecencia
Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
I have again and again intimated that I desire the hair to be arranged closely, modestly, plainly. Miss Temple, that girl’s hair must be cut off entirely; I will send a barber to-m…
The squirrels were in hiding. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself.
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