excrescent adjective. [ɪk'skrɛs(ǝ)nt, ɛks-] L15.
[Latin excrescent-: see EXCRESCENCE, -ENT.]
1. Increased by addition, greater; constituting more than the normal quantity. Now rare. L15.

2. That grows out naturally. Now rare or obsolete. M17.

3. Growing abnormally; forming or constituting an excrescence; redundant, superfluous. M17.

4. Philology. Of a sound or letter in a word: due merely to euphony, not to derivation. L19.

■ excre'scential adjective of the nature of an excrescence; redundant, superfluous: M19.

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