[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

excrescence \excres"cence\n. f. excrescence, excroissanse, l.
   excrescentia excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere.
   see excrescent.
   an excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything
   growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural
   or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an
   incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
   "excrescences of joy." --jer. taylor.
   1913 webster

         the excrescences of the spanish monarchy. --addison.
   1913 webster
see also:
excrescent 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

excrescence
     n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
          a form syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
           jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion
     2: pathology an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some
        part of the body
see also:
bulge bump hump gibbosity gibbousness jut 
prominence protuberance protrusion extrusion 

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