ALL meanings of excrescence
- noun excrescence growth 1
- noun excrescence A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality. 1
- countable noun excrescence If you describe something such as a building, addition, or development as an excrescence, you strongly disapprove of it because you think it is unnecessary, bad, or ugly. 0
- noun excrescence a projection or protuberance, esp an outgrowth from an organ or part of the body 0
- noun excrescence a normal outgrowth; natural appendage, as a fingernail 0
- noun excrescence an abnormal or disfiguring outgrowth or addition, as a bunion 0