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Meanings of excrescence in English
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.
Usage of excrescence in English
1
They seemed to start and finish abruptly-anexcrescence in the all-pervadingflatness.
2
Only the queer excrescence on its top moved, and that stirred vaguely.
3
They are an excrescence which afflicts oak trees - the knopper gall.
4
Their woody bones were bowed, their skins corticate and boiling with excrescence.
5
It was smooth, moreover, offering neither knot nor excrescence for a foothold.
6
He was an excrescence, a kind of sarcoma, who wasted her completely.
7
To commence then:-Thenose, according to Bartholinus, is that protuberance-thatbump-that excrescence-that-
8
One excrescence the more has been formed; as it dries it becomes black.
9
The well-known cashew-nut grows like an excrescence from the end of the apple.
10
In the State they have become an excrescence and an impediment.
11
This cheerful excrescence on the face of suffering nature is a native church.
12
They are the inevitable excrescence of Trump's above-the-law, race-baiting, me-first presidency.
13
A shabby excrescence of tent and hut swells Yerba Buena to a town.
14
It is no excrescence, or accidental outgrowth of the Church's life.
15
He cured sore throat by means of the vegetable excrescence called Jew's ear.
16
How has Canada escaped so much of this fungus excrescence of representative government?
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