This word for the day is brought to us by Mr. Webster and the
Third Edition of his New World College Dictionary:
excrescence n. 1. a normal outgrowth, a natural
appendage, as a fingernail
2. an abnormal or disfiguring
outgrowth or additions, as a bunion
as in:
Most builders I know would not like having their gables
characterized as excrescences.
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