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ernatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.

Something growing superfluously.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.

A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth. Wiseman.

A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [Obs.]

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on 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. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

(Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [U. S.]

A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

Excrescence. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

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.

e 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 shru…