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Spongy :: Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones..

Excrescency :: Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.

Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..

Carnosity :: Carnosity (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.

Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

Wenny :: Wenny (a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence..

Gall :: Gall (n.) 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..

Fungosity :: Fungosity (n.) The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.

Chit :: Chit (n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart..

Wart :: Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants..

Horn :: Horn (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout..

Pomiferous :: Pomiferous (a.) Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple..

Glomuliferous :: Glomuliferous (a.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

Warty :: Warty (a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence..

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy..

Burl :: Burl (n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences..

Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..

Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence..

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