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EXCRESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does excrescent mean?
• EXCRESCENT (adjective)
The adjective EXCRESCENT has 1 sense:
1. forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
Familiarity information: EXCRESCENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
Derivation:
excrescence ((pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body)
excrescence (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)
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