Usually means: Abnormal growth on body, plant.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. excrescence: Merriam-Webster
  2. excrescence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excrescence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excrescence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excrescence: Vocabulary.com
  6. excrescence: Wordnik
  7. excrescence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. excrescence: Wiktionary
  9. excrescence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excrescence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excrescence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. excrescence: Dictionary.com
  13. excrescence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Excrescence (phonology), Excrescence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Excrescence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. excrescence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. excrescence: Rhymezone
  18. Excrescence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. excrescence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. excrescence: FreeDictionary.org
  21. excrescence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. excrescence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. excrescence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. excrescence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excrescence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. excrescence: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Excrescence: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Excrescence: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. excrescence: Medical dictionary
  7. Excrescence: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
noun:  A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
noun:  (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).

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