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Wart :: Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants..

Superfamily :: Superexcrescence (n.) Something growing superfluously.

Chit :: Chit (n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart..

Pomiferous :: Pomiferous (a.) Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple..

Glomuliferous :: Glomuliferous (a.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

Fungosity :: Fungosity (n.) The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..

Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Outgrowth :: Outgrowth (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Strophulus :: Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Sibbens :: Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch..

Carnosity :: Carnosity (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.

Spongy :: Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones..

Wenny :: Wenny (a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence..

Burl :: Burl (n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences..

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy..

Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..

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