Excrescence

Definitions: Excrescence

Excrescence

Noun

1. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.

2. An abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.

Date "excrescence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Etymology: Excrescence \Ex*cres"cence\n. [French expression excrescence, excroissanse, from Latin expression excrescentia excrescences, neut. plural of p. pr. of excrescere. See Excrescent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Excrescence

Synonyms: bulge (n), bump (n), extrusion (n), gibbosity (n), gibbousness (n), hump (n), jut (n), prominence (n), protrusion (n), protuberance (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Blemish	Freckle, mole, macula, patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip, blubber lip; blain, maculation; scar, wem; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple; (protuberance).
Convexity	Intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Excrescence

English words defined with "excrescence": Carnosity ♦ Epithema, Excrescency, Excrescential ♦ Fungosity ♦ Rat-tail ♦ Strophiole ♦ Wenny. (references)

Specialty definitions using "excrescence": branched alkane, branched chain alkane ♦ embocadura de rosca. (references)

Etymologies containing "excrescence": Excrescential ♦ ganglion. (references)

"Excrescence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excrescence" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

Language		Translations for "excrescence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, gall, gallnut, glandule, hump, hunch, knob, knur, knurr, lump, node, nub, overgrowth, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tubercle), bullungë (knur, knurr, lump). (various references)

Arabic		‏نامية (outgrowth), ‏زائدة, ‏الزائدة. (various references)

Bulgarian		нарастък (knot, tuber, tubercle), израстък (appendage, appendix, growth, intumescence, knot, knurl, nub, outgrowth, process, shoot, sucker, verruca). (various references)

Czech		výrùstek na tìle. (various references)

Danish		excrescens (outgrowth), vildskud, udvaekst, udvækst (outgrowth, wart), spiring i aks (outgrowth), snirkler (literary flourish), gevækst (outgrowth), forsiringer (literary flourish, ornamental). (various references)

Dutch		excrescentie (outgrowth), excrescentia (outgrowth), ziekelijke uitwas, woekering (neoformation, neoplasm, outgrowth), uitwas (caruncle, excess, outgrowth), uitgroeisel (outgrowth), stijlversiering (literary flourish), stijloverlading (literary flourish). (various references)

Finnish		kasvannainen (outgrowth). (various references)

French		excroissance. (various references)

German		auswuchs (coming into ear, deformity, ear emergence, excess, excesses, germination, heading, hunch, outgrowth, protuberance, sprouting). (various references)

Greek		όγκοσ (bulk, bunch, clump, gobbet, growth, hump, hunch, lump, mass, neoplasm, nub, tumor, tumour, volume), όγκος (ball, bulk, growth, tumour, volume), έκφυση (outgrowth), έκφυμα (outgrowth), παραφυήσ, υποσάρκωμα, χρησιμοποίηση ωραίων φράσεων (literary flourish), φιοριτούρες (flourish, gracenotes, literary flourish), εκβλάστημα (outgrowth), εξόγκωση (distension, outgrowth), ανώμαλη ανάπτυξη ιστού. (various references)

Hungarian		kinövés (excrement, exuberance, hunch, lump, nub, outgrowth, wart). (various references)

Italian		escrescenza (growth, outgrowth). (various references)

Manx		sprangan (offset), moyl (knob, knur, protuberance, tuber). (various references)

Pig Latin		excrescenceay

Portuguese		excrescência (excrescent, outgrowth), excremento (dung, excrement, faecal matter, faeces, feces, ordure, rejectamenta), perífrases (literary flourish). (various references)

Romanian		excrescenţã (node), umflãturã (boss, bulge, caruncle, core, gibbosity, lump, misgrowth, puff, swelling, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Russian		нарост (knag, knur, node, outgrowth, overgrowth, wart). (various references)

Scottish		faob (an excrescence, knob, piece as of dough). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		izraslina (growth, knob, knot, lump, node, nodule, wen). (various references)

Spanish		excrecencia (gall, outgrowth, wart). (various references)

Swedish		utväxt (burr, growth, knob, knot, outgrowth, wart, wen), sjuklig utväxt. (various references)

Turkish		yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nub, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous, wart), ur (fibroid, growth, neoplasm, tuberosity, tumor, tumour, vegetation, Wen), fazlalık (bulge, de trop, excess, glut, margin, more, overage, overbalance, overplus, oversupply, plus, residuary, super, superfluities, superfluity, supernumerary, surplus, surplusage). (various references)

Ukranian		розростання (accretion, overgrowth), наріст (gnarl, node, nodule, outgrowth, snag). (various references)

Vietnamese		chỗ sùi, cục l�"i. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	excrescentia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "excrescence": excrescences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Excrescence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decrescence, excrescene, excresence, excressence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "excrescence" (pronounced 'Ex*cres"cence'): Accrescence, Acquiescence, Adolescence, Albescence, Arborescence, Calescence, Calorescence, Candescence, Circumjacence, Coalescence, Cognoscence, Concrescence, Crescence, Decence, Dehiscence, Deliquescence, Delitescence, Detumescence, Efflorescence, Emollescence, Evanescence, Exacerbescence, Excandescence, Extumescence, Fatiscence, florescence, Frondescence, Fructescence, Hyalescence, incalescence, incandescence, Incoalescence, Indecence, Indehiscence, Ineffervescence, inflorescence, intumescence, Inturgescence, Invalescence, iridescence, juvenescence, Lactescence, Lapidescence, Latescence, luminescence, Nonacquiescence, Obmutescence, Obsolescence, Opalescence, Petrescence. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-e-e-e-n-r-s-x"
	-5 letters: censer, creese, recces, reseen, screen, secern, serene.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-c-e-e-e-e-n-r-s-x"
	+1 letter: excrescences.
	+2 letters: excrescencies.
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