Noun excrescence has 2 senses
  1. bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
    --1 is a kind of projection
    --1 has particulars:
     frontal eminence; occipital protuberance; belly; caput; mogul; nub, nubble; snag; wart
  2. excrescence - (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
    --2 is a kind of
    process, outgrowth, appendage; growth
    --2 has particulars: vegetation
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