excrescential, a.
(ɛkskrɛˈsɛnʃəl)
[f. L. excrēscenti-a (see excrescence) + -al1.]
Of the nature of an excrescence, redundant.
| 1849 Ruskin Sev. Lamps vi. §15. 177 Mane and beard as in the lion..are..excrescential characters. a 1864 Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) II. 183 The vestry..occupies that excrescential edifice. |