excrescence

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Teenoorgestelde van

svarabhakti, anaptyxis

Sinonieme

bump

outgrowth

protuberance

swelling

bulge

hump

prominence

protrusion

knob

lump

wart

nodule

extrusion

tumour

gibbosity

gibbousness

jut

hunch

tumor

vegetation

volume

appendix

wen

bulk

bunch

burl

clump

emergence

gobbet

growth

mass

monstrosity

neoplasm

node

nub

projection

puff

scar

tubercle

tuberosity

Vertalings

excroissance

excrescência

excrecencia

escrescenza

gereksiz

fazlalık

uitwas

protuberanza

fazla

prominència

Ausgeburt

Wucherung

όγκος

απόφυση

bony

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: -

In summary

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excrēscere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + crēscere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).