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excrescence

noun as in protuberance

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Third, Oregon truffles have a very short shelf life, so the ones that weren’t underwhelming people with their woodenness were often terrifying them with their unholy excrescences.

Nor are these stories a mere excrescence of theology, but theology itself.

His cowl had half-fallen back, and made a strange excrescence on either side of his bull-neck.

There was a small excrescence or hut on the roof—about ten feet by six in dimensions—which formed—their residence.

Behind this, hiding itself as it were and almost invisible, nestled a smaller excrescence or offshoot.

Accordingly, the Crown has dwindled away in proportion to the unnatural and turgid growth of this excrescence on the Court.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excrescence, such as: accretion, enlargement, knob, lump, outgrowth, and pimple.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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