| 单词 | excrescence |
| 释义 | excrescence (once / 6978 pages) n WORD FAMILY excrescence: excrescences+/excrescent: excrescence USAGE EXAMPLESUnquestionably, however, Mr Trump has bestowed on this excrescence a scarcely dreamed-of prominence. Economist(Sep 15, 2016) “It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man.” The Guardian(Sep 14, 2016) Their handles have gotten fat, covered with colorful rubber excrescences. Washington Post(Feb 14, 2016) 1n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings the bony excrescence between its horns Syn|Hypo|Hyper bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling frontal eminence either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit occipital protuberanceprominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone bellya part that bulges deeply caputa headlike protuberance on an organ or structure mogula bump on a ski slope nub, nubblea small lump or protuberance snaga sharp protuberance wartany small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) projection any solid convex shape that juts out from something 2n (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body Hypo|Hyper vegetation an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) appendage, outgrowth, process a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant growth(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
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