excrescence
- n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
the bony excrescence between its horns - n (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
- In his second book Grass has turned to another grotesquea gawky adolescent named Joachim Mahlke who is afflicted by a quivering excrescence of flesh over his Adam's apple.
- As every Junker knows Herr Darr regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany.
- Franklin Roosevelt, who recently described columnists as unnecessary excrescences, turned out to be a onetime excrescence himself.