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excrementitious | excrementive | excrementize | excrescence | excrescency | excrescent | excrescential | excreta | excrete | excretin | excreting

excrescent

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Adjective
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ex=cres=cent

CIDE DICTIONARY

excrescenta. [L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out ; ex out + crescere to grow. See Crescent.].
     Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.  [1913 Webster]
    "Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts."  [1913 Webster]
Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.

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