excrescent
Noun
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Noun
excrescent (plural excrescents)
- Something growing, usually abnormally, out of something else.
- (phonetics) A sound in a word without etymological reason.
- "B" in "nimble" is an excrescent.
excrescent
- Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (
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