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The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence. Dunglison.

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences. M. C. Cooke.

part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below). -- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub…

Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.:

Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. -- n.

Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy. Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.

f sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple.

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

aws. 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. [Written also sivvens.]

h away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. De Foe.

A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

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

A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

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.

Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.

An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Ca…

Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell (Ovulum verrucosum), having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.