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excrudescence

excrudescence noun: a symbolic abnormal outgrowth.

Noun

excrudescence (plural excrudescences)

  1. A symbolic abnormal outgrowth.
    • "His beard seemed to bristle like an excrudescence of pain."1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, 'The One Tree, page 29
    • "To complicate the Apillonian allusion in this well-centered landscape, Apollo's relationship to water remains complex: to establish the oracle at Delphi, Apollo kills the Python, a giant (female) excrudescence raised from the mud of the flood, as it lies by a clear spring."1994, Katherine Kearns, 'Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite, page 23

Forms of excrudescence

pluralexcrudescences

Questions about excrudescence

What does excrudescence mean?
Excrudescence means a symbolic abnormal outgrowth.
What part of speech is excrudescence?
Excrudescence is a noun.
What is the plural of excrudescence?
The plural of excrudescence is excrudescences.

Words near excrudescence in the dictionary

  1. excruciatingly
  2. excruciation
  3. excruciations
  4. excruciator
  5. excruciators
  6. excrudescence
  7. excrudescences
  8. excrutiate
  9. excsc
  10. excubant
  11. excubation

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