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excrescent is an adjective meaning "forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)". It carries one recorded sense.
forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for excrescent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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