excrescence

n. 瘤, 赘生物, 自然长出物(如指甲、头发) [医] 赘生物, 赘疣

发音

UK /ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/
US /ɛkˈskɹɛsəns/

词形变化

excrescences 复数 excrescences

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.

  2. 2.

    A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.

  3. 3.

    The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 10

bump hump swelling bulge prominence jut protrusion extrusion gibbosity gibbousness

上位词 5

process growth projection appendage outgrowth

下位词 9

belly vegetation snag wart mogul nub caput frontal eminence nubble

词源

From Middle English, early 15th century, in sense “(action of) growing out (of something else)”. Borrowed from Latin excrescentia (“abnormal growths”), from excrescentem, from excrēscere, from ex- (“out”) (English ex-) + crēscere (“to grow”) (English crescent). Sense of “abnormal growth” from 1570s, from earlier excrescency (1540s in this sense).

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