(formal) an ugly lump that has grown on a part of an animal's body or on a plant:
A hard, bony excrescence was visible above one of the animal's hooves. * (figurative) The new office block is an excrescence (= it is very ugly).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for excrescence is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is excrescence a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, excrescence is tagged as noun.
Does excrescence appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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