excrescent

• Adjetivo pouco comum que descreve algo que cresce de forma anormal ou que é supérfluo; em sentido figurado, significa excessivo ou indesejado.

An obsolete adjective describing something that grows out abnormally or is superfluous; often used in a figurative sense to mean redundant or unwanted.

1. Forming an outgrowthC2formal

   Growing out from something as an abnormal or excessive projection.

   Excrecente

   • The tree had an excrescent branch that twisted oddly.
   • The doctor removed an excrescent growth from the patient's skin.
   • Excrescent formations on the rock were caused by mineral deposits.

   Sinônimosbulgingjuttingprojectingprominentprotrudingprotuberant

   Antônimosrecedingrecessed