EXCRESCENCE

excrescence

Noun

  1. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
  2. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct
  3. epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., as 1 (adding a 2 between 3 and 4), or .


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