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Word of the Day: Catachrestical

Excrescent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Growing out of something else, in a preternatural manner; superfluous; as a wart or tumor.

2. Expunge the whole or lop the excrescent parts.

Excrescent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

Excrescential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.