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excrescence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| Type of | projection |
| Has types | occipital protuberance, snag, wart, belly, caput, frontal eminence, mogul, nub, nubble |
| Derivation | excrescent |
the bony excrescence between its horns.
excrescence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | appendage, process, outgrowth, growth |
| Has types | vegetation |
| Derivation | excrescent |
Examples of excrescence
excrescence
Of course Farrell's excrescence is the perfect expression of China's New Fascism.
From the guardian.co.uk
Mercifully, this latest inhuman excrescence is not government policy, as at Abu Ghraib.
From the economist.com
Humanity is sitting back, watching this despicable parasitic excrescence destroy the planet.
From the economist.com
If untouchability could be a part of Hinduism, it could but be a rotten part or an excrescence.
From the en.wikipedia.org
To them it's a folk-art excrescence, polluting the front door of their newly upgraded temple of high art.
From the nzherald.co.nz
We left cross, peckish and reflecting that the most authentic thing about this excrescence is its name.
From the guardian.co.uk
Land travellers see now the excrescence of the Mann Island development, bursting upon the previous space like a pustulent boil.
From the guardian.co.uk
Even the fishermen have been infuriated by this monstrous excrescence whose garbage sometimes drifts as far as Cyprus, Syria and Turkey.
From the independent.co.uk
That local decreases in entropy are possible so long as they are offset by global increases is not some excrescence tacked on to the second law by people desperate to protect evolution.
From the scienceblogs.com
- Bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
- (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
- (excrescent) forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
- An excrescence is an outgrowth of the main body of a building that does not harmonize well with the main body. ...
- In phonology, epenthesis (/u0259u02C8pu025Bnu03B8u0259su026As/; Greek: u1F10u03C0u03ADu03BDu03B8u03B5u03C3u03B9u03C2) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior of a word. The word epenthesis comes from epi "in addition to" and en "in" and thesis "putting"...
- Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else; A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct; epenthesis of a consonant
- (Excrescences) Hairs, scales and the like attached to the outer face of the membrane of the flagellum.
- (Excrescences) (eks-KRESS-en-sus) -- Wartlike growth, often watery.
- (Excrescences) outgrowths from the surface of a part.
