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Today's Word "excrescence"

Something growing out from something else on

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excrescence \ik-SKRESS-uhn(t)s\ (noun) - 1 : Something (especially something abnormal) growing out from something else. 2 : A disfiguring or unwanted mark, part, or addition.

"Will you give me a sporting two to one, Jeeves, judging from what you have seen of him, that this chappie is not a blighter or an excrescence?" -- P.G. Wodehouse, 'Enter Jeeves'

 

Excrescence is from Latin excrescentia, "excrescences," from excrescere, "to grow out," from ex-, "out" + crescere, "to grow."


 

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