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Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

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  1. a. Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
  2. adj. forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)
  3. Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.
  4. Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as asuperfluity.Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope.Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root;as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.
  5. a. forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth)