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EXCRESCENT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. Forming an abnormal, excessive, or useless outgrowth. 2. Of, relating to, or constituting epenthesis. www.merriam-webster.com
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EXCRESCENT Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Excrescent definition: growing abnormally out of something else; superfluous.. See examples of EXCRESCENT used in a sentence. www.dictionary.com
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EXCRESCENT definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. forming an excrescence; growing abnormally; superfluous 2. Phonetics designating or of an epenthetic sound or letter in a word. www.collinsdictionary.com
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excrescent
excrescent, a. (ɛkˈskrɛsənt) Also 6 excressent. [ad. L. excrēscent-em, pr. pple. of excrēscĕre: see excresce v.] 1. † a. gen. That grows out. Const. from (obs.). b. Bot. of a peduncle (see quot. 1857).1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 172 The excrescent, supercrescent, and ever-crescent parts. 1677 Hale Prim... Oxford English Dictionary
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EXCRESCENCE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1 ... a projection or outgrowth especially when abnormal ... warty excrescences in the colon ... 2 ... a disfiguring, extraneous, or unwanted mark or part : blot ... 3. www.merriam-webster.com
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excrescent - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · A growing mutation, usually abnormal. · (historical linguistics) A sound in a word without etymological reason. "B" in "nimble" is an excrescent. en.wiktionary.org
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Spoelstra
Spoelstra is a surname, probably a topographic name meaning ‘from the pool’ (Frisian), from an agent noun based on Middle Low German pōl ‘(muddy) pool’, with excrescent wikipedia.org
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excrescent - American Heritage Dictionary Entry
1. Growing out abnormally, excessively, or superfluously. 2. Linguistics Of or relating to epenthesis; epenthetic. ex·cres cent·ly adv ... ahdictionary.com
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Excrescence - Wikipedia
Excrescence may refer to: Excrescence (phonology), the addition of a consonant to a word; In medicine and physiology, an outgrowth, especially of this skin ... en.wikipedia.org
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Excrescence - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. “the bony excrescence between its horns”. synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, ... www.vocabulary.com
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excrescent definition - Linguix.com
excrescent. ADJECTIVE. forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth). linguix.com
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EXCRESCENCE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
an unusual growth on an animal or one of its organs, or on a plant: Adult males sometimes have a strange excrescence on the tip of their snouts ... dictionary.cambridge.org
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AMONGST definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
3 days ago[1200-50; earlier amongs, ME amonges, equiv. to among among + -es adv. gen. suffix; excrescent -t as in against] Examples of 'amongst' in a sentence amongst. These examples have been automatically selected and may contain sensitive content that does not reflect the opinions or policies of Collins, or its parent company HarperCollins. ...
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excrescentitious
excrescenˈtitious, a. rare—1. (ɛkskrɛsənˈtɪʃəs) [badly f. excrescent + -itious; after adventitious.] Of the nature of an excrescence.1833 New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 189 This wart on the ‘great wen’ is as distinct and excrescentitious as if, etc. Oxford English Dictionary
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Graves (surname)
The surname is likely a variant of Grave with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname Grave seems to have its possible origins in: 1. wikipedia.org
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