Word Meanings - EXCRESCENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences

Additional info about word: EXCRESCENCE

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCRESCENCE)

• Protuberance
• Lump
• swelling
• excrescence
• convexity

Related words: (words related to EXCRESCENCE)

• PROTUBERANCE
  That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• SWELLDOM
  People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
• SWELLING
  an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
• CONVEXITY
  The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
• SWELLISH
  Dandified; stylish.
• EXCRESCENCE
  An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences
• SWELLFISH
  Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• BOSWELLISM
  The style of Boswell.
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.
• SUPEREXCRESCENCE
  Something growing superfluously.
• OUTSWELL
  1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.
• BOSWELLIAN
  Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
• OVERSWELL
  To swell or rise above; to overflow. Shak.