0 an unusual growth on an animal or one of its organs or on a plant
The new office development is an excrescence on the face of the city.
Infinitely plastic, ectoplasm was supposedly capable of being molded either into excrescences protruding from the medium's body or into a separate entity.
Strange as it may seem, we are discussing, stripped of the irrelevances and the excrescences and the asides, the most vital question before this country.
Provided that he had an original strain of good dairy cattle to work upon, he was not concerned about the superficial excrescences of his animals.
We have the materials, and we have the labour, but too much of that is being used for building the excrescences of commerce and industry.
He mentioned the estates that were being demolished and the fact that the excrescences were coming down.
To-day anomalies are relatively small and unimportant compared with the mass; they are excrescences.
Many of the architects have bad taste; they produce tall hotels with blank-looking exteriors and flat tops, except for excrescences such as the top of lift shafts.
All these boards are unnecessary excrescences.
