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Definition: Excrescent |
ExcrescentAdjective1. Forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "excrescent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Excrescent \Ex*cres"cent\, adjective. [Latin expression excresens, -entis, present participle of excrescere to grow out; ex out crescere to grow. See Crescent.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Excrescent |
| English words defined with "excrescent": Excrescent letter. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "excrescent": Excrescence. (references) |
Expression using "excrescent": Excrescent letter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "excrescent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që rritet në mënyrë jo normale, që përbën bullungë, i tepërt (excess, excessive, last, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excess, excessive, last, odd, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشكل نامية غير طبيعية, زائد (excessive, plus, redundant, superfluous, supernumerary, swollen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | образуващ нарастъци, нарастващ (accretive, accumulative, augmentative, cumulative, growing, rising), излишен (de trop, expletive, needless, otiose, pleonastic, redundant, spare, superabundant, superfluous, supernumerary, supervacaneous, surplus, unnecessary, unwanted, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | výrùstkový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | excroissant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיותר (gratuitous, needless, otiose, redundant, spare, superfluous, unnecessary), מסוקס (gnarled, knotted, lumpy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendellenes megnagyobbodás, kinövést okozó, hiábavaló (bootless, fiddling, frustrate, futile, ineffective, inutile, nugatory, of no avail, otiose, piffle, purposeless, rope of sand, superfluous, unavailing, useless, vain), felesleges (over, redundant, spare, superfluous, surplus, uncalled for, unnecessary, unwanted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | excrescentay excrescente, excrescência (excrescence, outgrowth), redundante (overabundant, redundant). (various references) superfluu (redundant, superfluous, unnecessary), inutil (addle, beside the purpose, bootless, effete, fruitless, idle, nugatory, pathetic, pathetically, superfluous, unavailing, unfruitful, unnecessary, unprofitable, useless, uselessly, vain, wasteful, worthless), de prisos (superfluous). (various references) образующий нарост, ненормально растущий, избыточный (excess, exuberant, over, overabundant, over-abundant, superabundant, supernumerary, verbose). (various references) koji izrasta, izraštaj (growth, outgrowth, process, protuberance, tuber, tubercle). (various references) saliente (cleat, jut, kern, ledge, outgoing, projecting, projection, prominent, protruding, protrusion, protrusive, proud, retiring, salient, Scarcement, setoff, shelf, tenon, tongue, tread bar, tyre tread). (various references) utväxtartad, utväxande, inskjuten, överflödig (expendable, otiose, redundant, superfluous). (various references) yumru gibi (lumpish), gereksiz (digressive, gratuitous, idle, indecent, indiscreet, inessential, needless, no, non essential, nonessential, otiose, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, uncalled for, unjustifiable, unnecessary, unneeded, unneedful), gereğinden fazla (more than enough, over, overmuch, redundant, superabundant, unnecessary), anormal büyüyen. (various references) що утворю" наріст, зайвий (excessive, needless, nimious, odd, otiose, over, redundant, spare, superfluous, surplus). (various references) vô ích (bootless, futile, inutile, naught, needless, unavailing, unhelpful, unnecessary, unrequired, unwanted, useless, vainly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "excrescent": excrescently. (additional references) | |
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"Excrescent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excrescene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "excrescent" (pronounced 'Ex*cres"cent'): Acaulescent, Accrescent, Acquiescent, Adducent, Adipescent, Adnascent, Albescent, Alkalescent, Arborescent, Candescent, Canescent, Caulescent, Cerulescent, Cinerescent, Circumjacent, Coalescent, Complacent, Conducent, Connascent, Contabescent, Decent, Dehiscent, Deliquescent, Delitescent, Depascent, Docent, Effervescent, Efflorescent, Enascent, Equicrescent, Erubescent, -escent, Evanescent, Excandescent, Exercent, Fervescent, Flavescent, Florescent, fluorescent, Fremescent, Frutescent, Gangrenescent, Glaucescent, Herbescent, ignescent, Inacquiescent, Incalescent, incandescent, Incanescent, Increscent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-n-r-s-t-x" | |
-2 letters: crescent, excretes, externes. | |
-3 letters: centers, centres, entrees, excrete, externe, externs, retenes, secrete, teeners, tenrecs. | |
-4 letters: censer, center, centre, certes, creese, enters, entree, erects, eterne, exerts, exsect, exsert, extern, nester, recces, recent, renest, rentes, resect, reseen, resent, retene, screen, secern, secret, serene, teener, tenrec, tenser, terces, ternes, treens. | |
-5 letters: cense, cents, ceres, cetes, crest, enter. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-n-r-s-t-x" | |
+2 letters: excrescently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 63 72 65 73 63 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- -.-. .-. . ... -.-. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x c r e s c e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 0063 0072 0065 0073 0063 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39906984718569718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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