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excrescential

excrescential adjective: pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.

Adjective

excrescential (comparative more excrescential, superlative most excrescential)

  1. Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
    • The vestry, I think, occupies that excrescential edifice which I noticed yesterday as having grown out of the cathedral.1853 August 4 – 1858 January 3 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Fields...
    • His ugliness was not unamiable: it was accidental, external, excrescential.1910, George Bernard Shaw, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

Forms of excrescential

comparativemore excrescential
superlativemost excrescential

Questions about excrescential

What does excrescential mean?
Excrescential means pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
What part of speech is excrescential?
Excrescential is an adjective.

Words near excrescential in the dictionary

  1. excrescence
  2. excrescences
  3. excrescencies
  4. excrescency
  5. excrescent
  6. excrescential
  7. excrescently
  8. excrescents
  9. excresces
  10. excrescing
  11. excreta

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